Word: santas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little danger of confusion. Boston's Curley was a charming, slush-funding, machine-tooled rascal who, on two occasions, found himself awearing o' the stripes when he was caught in the act of fraud. Tracy's Skeffington is just about the dearest old party since Santa Claus: a combination of Robin Hood and Mother Machree. Sure and if he steals, 'tis only from the rich, and doesn't the darlin' man turn right around and give it all to the poor...
...this all. With the Christmas Season approaching, there are already indications that the industry, placing no restraint on its corruption, is about to exploit the gentle image of Santa Claus in peddling its corrosive poisons...
...home of the Blue Laws and Cotton Mather, of no baseball on Sunday mornings and no sherry under twenty-one, is already resisting. In a sharp letter to the liquor barons, the Massachusetts Beverage Control deplored the use of the "pictures and/or name of St. Nicholas--also called Santa Claus" in its advertising. Here, at least, the spirit that warmed Salem is not yet extinguished...
Hawthorn finished with a total of 42 points. Moss, piloting a British Vanwall, scored 41 points by gaining nine Sunday. Phil Hill, of Santa Monica, Calif., finished third Sunday in another Ferrari. The title is decided by adding the points scored by drivers in their six best grand prix races of the year...
...press, radio, television and the movies; they have been so educated to the star cult that even the smallest little provincial city will take opera only if it has a star. I see no desire of the public in the country to build opera from young companies." What about Santa Fe, which has recently formed a successful summer opera company? "Where," said Rudi Bing, "is Santa Fe?" In a rare, ruffled moment, he added: "Perhaps I am too much of a European...