Word: recoil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boyle Recoil. Political embarrassments trailed the President all week. He told his press conference that he was still looking into charges that Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle took fees from a St. Louis firm just before it got a big RFC loan (TIME, Aug. 6). He had hurried to defend other cronies when someone said that they had been caught with their morals down. But he kept a glum, tight-lipped silence about Boyle...
...Duke of Bristol, it seems, is about to lose his ancestral home. His brother Gerard, played by Ralph Michael, invites the family to work on his farm, but they recoil from the idea in horror. Providence appears in the form of the American millionairess, played by Beatrice Pearson. After a great deal of to-do she and Gerard get together, as you might know they would. The play is short on action and long on talk, a great deal of which takes place inside a gloomy drawing-room set by Edward Gilbert. Most of the time the 14 characters just...