Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lucrative business, whose chief interests in life seem to be feeding competitors to a vicious dog locked up in his wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both hero and heroine. But later, true to Hollywood tradition, this all turns...
...Columbus had sailed due west, the "prevailing westerlies" of the North Atlantic might have battered his caravels back to Europe. But by luck, sailor's hunch, or a simple desire to sail in warm weather, he detoured south to the Canary Islands, picked up favorable winds. Since then, transatlantic sailing ships have used the Columbus system, often sweeping miles out of their straight-line courses to take advantage of friendly winds...
...middles began ominously by taking the medley relay by a healthy margin, but never got within a point of the Crimson cntil they copped the first two places in the backstroke, paced by Sailor Tom Lechner's effortless performance...
...Carlo dancing. This time it is Miss de Carlo's turn. A refined girl, she nevertheless heads the floor show in a tidy sort of Moroccan dive in order to support her mother (Eve Arden), a lady wastrel. She is rescued from these questionable surroundings by a sailor named...
Actually not all of the nine paintings on show were distorted, but most of them were poor. They ranged from a seasick-looking sailor with form and features rearranged to suit Picasso, to a 1944 Plante de Tomates which made perfectly good sense-except that the plant appeared to be growing from a puddle of light rays instead...