Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cottage in a new section of Waterville. Like most of his neighbors, Ed is a do-it-yourself repairman. Last year, in the midst of some intensive carpentry in his attic, he fell down the stairs, crushed a vertebra. At 40 the governor-elect is a slender, slightly stooped reed standing 6 ft. 4 in. He has curly brown hair, and a gentle, bemused manner that appeals especially to women. He describes himself as "neither a New Deal nor a Fair Deal Democrat, but a Maine Democrat." nonetheless keeps a watercolor portrait of a caped Franklin Roosevelt behind his office...
...their toes most of the time, doing high kicks and hoedowns evoking rather than describing romance and square dance on the frontier. Sometimes the ballerinas took off their fancy airs: pretty Diana Adams walked flatfooted, in an impudent, corn-fed way; dramatic Tanaquil LeClercq snapped her hips waggishly; Janet Reed took a running header across the stage onto her partner's arms...
...main, the story follows the book. Sinuhe (Edmund Purdom), infant son of the Pharaoh's wife, is set adrift in a reed boat on the Nile, victim of a palace plot against his mother. Rescued by a childless couple, he is raised as their son, learns the healing arts of his stepfather, a physician. Coming of age, Sinuhe meets a young soldier (Victor Mature), and together they save the life of the new Pharaoh Akhnaton (Michael Wilding) when he is attacked by a lion in the desert...
Dissent. In Phoenix, Ariz., Judge Ralph Barry charged that Fred Q. Reed, angered by the court's community-property settlement between Reed and his former wife, followed him out of the courtroom, crumpled the judge's straw hat, kicked him in the seat of the pants...
...much. Groucho Marx can get away with it but me. I couldn't. I'm not that good." But if he has to choose, Cullen would rather be snide than syrupy. He has had to lick another tendency-overenthusiasm: "You know. Bert Parks and John Reed King started this routine of building up a climax and shouting at the correct answer, screaming 'That's right! That's right!' I got over that, finally...