Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father's flat, sinister voice is probably the most familiar and vicious in radio's rogues' gallery. It seems that scarcely a crime is committed on the air these summer days without Ralph Bell having a trigger finger in it. His ominous accents exude the criminal essence so unfailingly that many directors hate to entrust a "hardened criminal" role to anyone else...
There are a few sympathetic characters and some quiet, even funny, stories. Moreover, in exploiting his vicious subjects, O'Hara implicitly exposes and condemns them. Kindness, fidelity and honesty are rarely portrayed-and of course never mentioned by name-but their rarity makes them all the pleasanter when encountered. Meanwhile O'Hara extracts all the flavor to be found in the manners and talk of U.S. types who have been hurt and hardened in a corrupt world...
...their picture taken beside the Jet Geyser, were disappointed by the poor catches being made by stream fishermen, but cheered up when they saw a bear amble out of a stand of dead spruce. Everybody stayed in the bus. The Governor had been warned that the bears were vicious...
...inertly doubled over the ropes, with Graziano hammering him as if he were trying to decapitate him. Referee Johnny Behr pulled Rocky away and stopped the fight. Whitey Bimstein, Rocky's second, leaped into the center of the ring to congratulate him-and promptly had to dodge a vicious left. Rocky was still fighting, without the faintest idea of what was going...
...mean man who won't promise; and there has been nothing mean about the sponsors of television. Television has loitered "just around the corner" for so long, says President Eugene F. McDonald Jr. of the Zenith Radio Corp., because it is trapped in a "vicious triangle...