Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elkins had backing for his story of Schrunk's bribe-taking: Elkins' bookkeeper told the McClellan committee that Cliff Bennett (who refused, without offering legal grounds, to answer questions) had come up $500 short in his accounts and had said, "Well, I gave it to Terry Schrunk." A hat-check girl in the 8212 Club recalled that Bennett, after talking to Schrunk on the night of the raid, asked her for a Manila envelope. Another club employee testified that he had seen Bennett count out "what I presumed was $500, and put it in a brown envelope...
Under a Palm. Until messages for Attorney Michel went unanswered for several days, nobody at the hotel missed the tourists, but finally the police were called. Searching the rooms, the police found all in perfect order: baggage seemingly untouched, an unfinished letter on Mrs. Hallock's desk. In short order the case bounced onto front pages around the U.S. Alarmed at the potential damage to its booming tourism, Acapulco called in the Federal Security Police. As day after day passed with no word, Mrs. Hallock's distraught sister, Mrs. Edith Hoffman, arrived from New York. She promptly revealed...
...Proud and the Beautiful is a daring and skillfully-wrought film. Adapted from a film by John Paul Sartre and directed by Yves Allegret, it is genuinely real and honest, although at times this honesty devotes itself to exploring the sordid and the obscene as a short-cut to a powerful audience response and proving a point...
...will deal a vicious blow to the chipmunks, who are already struggling to the limits of their tiny, furry little paws against snakes, hawks, foxes, and, worst of all, weasels. The cunning craft of the Senator stands stark before us when we recall that he posed, but a few short months ago, as the friend of the White House squirrels who used to frolic carefree before the lawn became the thirteenth green...
Then there was Kaye. He took old songs and new twists, jokes, casual conversation, tall lines and short lines, even a few serious lines, and captivated everyone in the audience. He did not really have enough material, but he rarely has. He imitated the Spanish dancers, did a takeoff on a German opera singer; and subsequently got the audience to add sound effects and choruses to songs. He grimaced, danced, and double-talked in an inimitable, much imitated manner...