Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absence was incorrect. Patsy hadn't had a cold at all; she had ridden to Laona (pop. 1,113), Wis. with her 41-year-old mother and her half brother, 24-year-old Charles French Jr., and, after all had pulled on masks, she had helped them rob the Laona State Bank...
...series of taut opening scenes sets the spirit of the piece: leering and wriggling, the streetwalker lures her men one by one to a corner where her hoodlum accomplices beat and rob them. It is easy until the mandarin enters: he has to be thrashed, stabbed, choked and finally hanged before he can be made to die. That moves even the streetwalker. Too late, she realizes what the power of passion can be, throws herself on the mandarin's still body in almost necrophilic abandon...
...knowledge, I should not be of any. help to you." At week's end Firth & Brown had only three directors left, two of them recent government appointees. ". . . The company as a continuous living organism," said the London Times, "has . . . lost its identity." Britons worried that such firings would rob the industry of its best men, disrupt the production of Britain's badly needed 16 million tons of steel a year. Unruffled, State Steel Boss Hardie planned further shakeups...
...could no longer play for free (two of the seven-man band are A.F.M. union members). Kings County Judge Samuel Leibowitz, known as "Brooklyn's No.1 Baseball Fan," promised to mediate. Said he: "I'm 100% for unions, but these people are not musicians. [Their] loss would rob Brooklyn fans of one of the most important emotional experiences they can have." ¶ West Germany's Gottfried von Cramm, 42, still playing the sweeping all-court game that made him a prewar Wimbledon finalist three years running, carried his team into the finals of the European Davis...
Sometimes a great play can carry its message over to the audience no matter how bad the production. But even "Streetcar" is having a tough time at the Boston Summer Theatre. Poor direction and unsure characterizations rob much of the power from Tennessee WilWilliams' masterpiece...