Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excellent as the Beggar King of backstreet Paris, even Maureen O'Hara is adequate as a gypsy dancer who violates some sort of 16th century McCarran Act and gets the Dungeon in return. For my money, though, it's Laughton all the way. His sardonic leer and characteristic aplomb steal the show whether he is abducting a woman, riding gleefully on the swinging church bells, or swooping down from the sky to save Miss O'Hara from the hangman's noose. Toward the picture's end, as a mob of Parisian beggars storm Notre Dame's doors, Laughton climbs...
...spokesman for the worshippers declared that the administration was "unduly alarmed about the nature of the Mass." Although "the traditional ritual demands the use of stolen host and holy water," the spokesman denied the charge that the group was planning to steal these items from a local church...
...Knowing the gag issue was to be published, the editors attempted to steal its thunder by announcing plans Thursday to print a facsimile of its old rival, "The Journal...
...spent playing golf and chasing girls, I now while away the days loitering around Beverly Hills' largest newsstand, selling copies of the Dec. 31 issue of TIME at premium prices . . . Yesterday, despite the fact that it was raining, I made $13. This is all tax free, for I steal the copies of TIME while the owner of the newsstand is out eating lunch...
...Johns Hopkins' Robert Williams Wood. It gives me the opportunity to air a slight but persistent gripe concerning, of all things, the current Ethyl gasoline advertisements carried by some pretty estimable magazines: "There's a big difference between holly and a polly," etc. This is a direct steal from Professor Wood's charming (and far cleverer) . . . The Antelope-The Cantelope...