Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WILLIAM E. THOMPSON...
...Ford) especially does some fresh things with her lines. For instance, when she is leading Falstaff on and tells him, "I fear you love Mistress Page," she raises the last name in pitch and volume as though in summons, whereupon Mistress Page pops into view by mistake. And Sada Thompson adds much to the humor of Mistress Quickly through a command of subtle inflections and timing...
...Ruse. The detectives pulled abreast of the Ford, waved the driver to the roadside. They greeted the Governor pleasantly, told him that they had been ordered to escort him to the capital. Long's driver got out of the Ford; Chief Detective Herman Thompson slid in behind the wheel and made for Baton Rouge. The disheveled Governor seemed delighted with the attention, spent the remainder of the trip trading small talk...
...only after Thompson pulled into the basement-ramp area of the courthouse at Baton Rouge that Earl Long realized that he had been tricked. "What's going on?" he cried. Thompson told him about the commitment papers. "Goddam! Goddam you all," screamed Earl. "You all are doing it again. Goddam you, I'll get you! I'll get all of you!" Turning wildly to a deputy whose father holds a state job with the Department of Corrections, Long yelled: "Your old man just lost his job!" As Earl thundered and cried, a crowd of incredulous onlookers pressed...
Elizabeth II will be in Canada for 44 days, will make a one-day jaunt south of the border to Chicago, whose Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson in the 1920s threatened to punch the Queen's grandfather, George V, "in the snoot." At the trip's high point this week, President Eisenhower joins the Queen aboard Britannia to dedicate the 182-mile St. Lawrence Seaway, which links the U.S.-Canadian Great Lakes with the world's deep water...