Word: rat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pound is closely followed by a parody of the "last mile" walk from the death house as a crazed dog is led off to be destroyed. The film's big terror scene takes place in a baby's bedroom, where valiant Tramp kills a red-eyed rat, even though he has to knock over the crib and dump the baby on the floor...
...Hewlett went into the Depression-years theater. When he had a job it was usually with GEORGE ABBOTT, Damn Yankees' director. Actor Hewlett played bits and served as Abbott's assistant stage director in Boy Meets Girl, toured coast-to-coast with the Brother Rat road show, understudying Tom Ewell, current Broadway star. In Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Hewlett portrayed a newsman...
...helping fight the Communists. Our Nationalist garrison leaned forward impassively on their weapons, expecting an infantry attack. 'We are completely encircled.' a report came through to us. Outside I could see a number of grotesquely related things: fire leaping from densely packed wooden shacks; a rat scurrying down a gutter to escape; refugees huddled or fleeing, silhouetted against the red backdrop, beneath the city-wide canopy of smoke. Here and there on the sidewalk lay pairs of wooden clogs; their owners had jumped out of them so they could flee more quickly, barefoot, to shelter...
...years in the House of Commons, Bessie Braddock has irritated, amused and disgusted other M.P.s, but has ended by winning a grudging admiration from most. "Our people are living in flea-ridden, bug-ridden, rat-ridden, lousy hellholes," she told them. "I will continue to agitate and kick up a row until we get rid of these evils." When the Tories walked out to protest one Labor bill, Bessie (in the words of one reporter) "rose from her seat and made a few steps forward, then a few steps backward. She then arched her body and minced across the floor...
Died. Constance Collier, 77, versatile dramatic actress, cinemactress (Kitty, Wee Willie Winkie), playwright (coauthor: The Rat, Down Hill), producer (Camille, Happy Families), author (Harlequinade) and dramatic coach (pupils: Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Winters); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...