Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force. Last year he toured for three months with Margaret Webster's Shakespearean company, did four weeks in summer stock, picked up three bit parts in Manhattan's City Center productions. An understudy now in the Broadway production of Shaw's Saint Joan, Joe helps cover his Greenwich Village apartment rent by selling ties at Brooks Brothers...
...best-natured girls who ever took a king's mind off his country. In fact, she was such a trouble-to-nobody sort that posterity-even the proper Victorians-has been as uncensorious as the queen; "sweet Nell of Old Drury" has almost been sentimentalized into a saint of strumpetry. It may come as something of a surprise to readers of Author John H. Wilson's brisk but scholarly biography that on contemporary testimony the true, unsanctified Nell was also "wanton, brazen, debauched and humorous ... a bold, merry slut," and all for all, "the wildest and indiscreetest creature...
...Hydrogen 12. Gurdjieff seems to have been a remarkable blend of P. T. Barnum, Rasputin, Freud, Groucho Marx and everybody's grandfather. To his disciples, he was a great man, a modern saint. To doubters, he was an astute phony peddling intellectual narcotics to spiritual neurotics. But all sides seemed to agree that he had picked up, as he acknowledged himself, an astonishing amount of useful information...
...Sheltered Life. In Saint Joseph, Mich., Robert Smith, suing for divorce, charged that, when at the movies, his wife made him go outside and stand in the lobby of the theater during scenes which showed "bathing suits or abbreviated costumes...
...Deluge!! "Bette Williams in her greatest-ever role as Noah's wife. Shut up in a floating menagerie with a wild-eyed, 600-year-old prophet! Is he saint or maniac? You'll never forget Shem, battling against the fire in the blazing hold; or Ham rescuing Japheth from the maddened gorilla they dare not kill! . . . Marvel at Lassie as she rounds up the escaped leopards fighting on the roof...