Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial opened, Girard's Army defense counsel said: "The boy is getting skinny. This thing is so hard on him that he has become a nervous wreck." Fresh from a visit with the defendant, the American Legion's Observer Alvin M. Owsley burbled: "There is something sweet about this youth. He does not stand alone. He is part of America...
Died. Craig Rice (Georgiana Randolph Craig), 49, bestselling authoress of about 25 whodunits (Having Wonderful Crime, To Catch a Thief, Trial by Fury) and a handful of screen plays (Home Sweet Homicide, Underworld Story), whose hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-dying heroes reflected their creator's liquid-decked (she was committed to California's Camarillo State Hospital in 1949 for chronic alcoholism), love-torn (five times married) and death-daring (she twice threatened suicide) Bohemian existence; of cause under investigation; in Los Angeles...
...Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
...about Lominval, as the young boy grows up, is the dark, beckoning world of the Ardennes forest. And Gaspard himself is marked from birth as another-worldling. At his christening, thunder rumbles in the distance, and a panicked cat scratches the notary's wife. Calamities hound the sweet, shy child-a deer hunter's slug pinks his skull and shatters a bust in the city hall, a truck on which he is perched roars runaway downhill to crash through a cottage. The villagers take muttering notice that no matter how badly such disasters may damage...
Anti-Sentimentalist. Cozzens himself often talks as if he did not give a damn. As an acquaintance puts it: "He is a shy, sweet man who says impermissible things." Cozzens will sneer of a friend: "Oh, he's one of those fellows that want equality for Indians." He will say on the race issue: "I like anybody if he's a nice guy, but I've never met many Negroes who were nice guys." He says what the public-relations-minded would never dare say-not only from self-confessed snobbery or in tribute to the Toryism...