Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westerns, like Mayor Curley and The Great Stone Face, should never change. Each is an indestructible commodity unique to this country, and each has a strange magnetic quality about it that attracts hard cash. In the case of the horse-opera, this lure is excitement, the old-fashioned kind of excitement. Generations of frustrated cowboys have tolerated the same ragged plots over an over again simply for the emotional release they get through seeing a guy riddled with blanks and squirting tomato juice all over the lot. When they don't get this gunplay, when the picture gets arty...
...leave from in front of Harvard Hall at 6:45 a.m. in a jeep and a trailer rendezvousing with other Greater Boston Y.P.A.'s at their intown headquarters. The demonstration is set for a half hour, beginning at 7:30 a.m. and will feature singing by HCW chairman Richard Stone...
...story is told concerning certain foolhardy Athenians who had the misfortune to look the wicked Medusa squarely in the face -they were turned instantly into stone. I think TIME readers all over the world, who might today be stalagmites, should thank your cover artist for painting Comrade Ana Pauker's features in profile...
...stone will be left unturned," Burke declared, "in our efforts to bring Harry here for a 'home stretch' rally...
Back in Cambridge, one particularly encouraging note was the absence of injuries. Rocky Stone, who has been out a week, was exercising under the canny eye of Jimmy Cox, and may be ready soon. Jerry Bahn, who broke an arm in pre-season workouts, appeared and began preliminary conditioning work. At the time of his injury Bahn ranked well up in the defensive ends...