Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Change of Pace. In Hilo, Hawaii, Dr. William F. Leslie, after losing 1) one automobile in a tidal wave, 2) his second car in a storm, 3) his third new car in a dock accident, announced that he was in the market for a horse & buggy...
...preparation for the storm, of civil strife gathering around the Gruaer case, the British last week strung barbed wire through Jerusalem, ordered the evacuation of Rehavia, the city's best residential district. The shock of the evacuation notices spread consternation through the Jewish community. When she got her notice, Mrs. Rifka Benjamin, a 65-year-old Hungarian widow, fell dead...
...chore boy, Nath Storm (Lon McCallister), learns from his wooden-legged employer (Edward G. Robinson) that the deserted Red House near the farm is strictly taboo. So are the deep woods that surround it. No reasons are given, beyond Farmer Robinson's obvious terror. Nath and the farmer's adopted child (Allene Roberts), thus forbidden, cannot resist trying to find out what it's all about. They are variously hindered by Nath's lush sweetheart (Julie London) and her sinister spare-time boy friend (Rory Calhoun). Their quest for the core of the farmer...
John Gielgud, famed Hamlet and King Lear of the English-speaking world, took an enthralled New Lecture Hall audience by storm yesterday, as he whimpered, ejaculated, and sobbed his way through a series of Shakespearian soliloquies, in an unannounced visit to English...
...will provide the coup de grace of the whole capitalist world. A socialist of the German stripe, non-Communist, but more in sympathy with their viewpoint and efforts than with those of the "reactionary capitalists," it is not difficult to pick out the haven he would seek in the storm. "The Coming Crisis" points the way to a socialist state with reservations...