Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election, Humphrey has built a large and loyal following. This year Freeman swept in on Humphrey's coattails, beating Republican Incumbent C. Elmer Anderson by 42,000 votes. Freeman, an eager young liberal, is only 36. During the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Freeman fought hard and noisily to throw out the Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana delegations over the party-loyalty resolution. Televiewers will remember him as an excited young man who stood atop his chair sputtering "point of order, point of order," while Sam Rayburn gaveled him down...
...action may not be the most direct. But it is understandable that the committee shied away from a notice requesting an end to the throwing of objects within the Stadium. Such a notice would seem elementary, unworthy of the students. Evidently, though it is elementary, the message is not unworthy but badly needed. A student can throw the beer can from his pocket as easily as from a carton if he is so moved. Checking all bulky liquids at the gate might restrain a few; self restraint must take care of the rest...
...best man . . . To enjoy women at all, one must manufacture an illusion and envelop them with it; otherwise they would not be endurable." Marriage, he concluded, "is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go to work in the brewery." Last week Prospective Bridegroom Nathan said: "I found the right girl at last." From the Royalton, where she also lives. Actress Haydon said: "I worship him. It's darling...
Better Head Lamp. After four years of joint research, a group of auto headlamp manufacturers has produced a brighter, sealed-beam lamp, with redesigned lens and hooded filament that throw the beam more to the right side of the road and screen out stray lights above the beam pattern. The new sealed-beam unit fits current models. Price: about...
...should be, his normal portrayal of Charles Laughton not being entirely faithful to the spirit of the picture. But even Laughton is comparatively restrained, and his co-stars, Bernda deBanzie and John Mills, are positively sparse in their underplaying. For Hobson's choice, whose comedy is of the delicate, throw-away nature, this is the precise treatment required. Moreover, during their scenes of pointed, only a shade below cloying, sweetness, Mills and Miss deBanzie are not hampered by the audience's recollection of them mugging and taking pratfalls but a moment before...