Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English literature, range from stormy thrillers to sunny farce, from the thunder of Samuel Johnson's prose to the lightning of Aldous Huxley's. They include little-known works by little-read writers as well as little read works by well-known writers: Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, William Hazlitt, Virginia Woolf. Few readers will like all of these stories, but almost everybody will be entertained by some of them...
Appointment in Honduras (RKO Radio) is a problem picture. The problem: if Ann Sheridan, with nothing on her back but some translucent yellow nightclothes, is abandoned in a Central American jungle with six hot-blooded men, can the material sustain the stress of the situation...
...palpably the largest number of potted palms ever assembled on one set. Thorns slash at Ann's nightie, a puma snaps at it, a colony of ants almost eats it off her back one night, even a crocodile comes up for a nibble. However, just as Actress Sheridan seems about to violate the Production Code, up steps Actor Ford to offer her his shirt and a spare pair of pants...
...annual Commemoration Run, from London to Brighton, of the British Veteran Car Club. The heroine is an alizarin-crimson 1904 Darracq named Genevieve, the hero an anonymous cadmium-yellow 1904 Spyker. The Darracq is the proud possession of a young man of moderate means (John Gregson). His wife (Dinah Sheridan) just goes along grimly for the ride. The Spyker belongs to a friend named Ambrose (Kenneth More), a frisky youth whose ambition it is "to combine the pleasures of the London-Brighton run with a really beautiful emotional experience...
Palm Sunday. Though Grant winced at the human cost, he was dogged enough to go on paying it month after month. But what the Union was losing in blood, the Confederacy was losing in ground and hope. Sherman took Atlanta, Sheridan wheeled through the Shenandoah and sent 60 miles of that fertile valley up in smoke. By the spring of 1865 Richmond fell easily, and Lee and the remnants of his army were boxed in near Appomattox Court House...