Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Copped. In Los Angeles, Reporter Chick Felton arrived with the police at the scene of a murder, noted the corpse, sidled up to the victim's landlady, asked: "Can I rent this apartment?" Said she: "I already rented it to that police sergeant...
...Furious Being. At the rehearsal Stokowski discovered the orchestration was only for piano and string quintet, sent out a call for the composer, meanwhile attempted to proceed. When Ponce arrived, Stokowski erupted in French. He semaphored and windmilled. His elderly victim commented later: "What a surprise ... a furious being, wildly gesticulating at me . . . very rude. ..." Stokowski adjourned the rehearsal until 7:30 a.m. on the day of the broadcast...
Just back from six months in Latin America, Latin-wise Correspondent Roland Hall Sharp last week began a series of uncensored articles in the Christian Science Monitor. First victim was big Brazil, which most people in the U.S. think of as a great & good friend of democracy. Correspondent Sharp found much to admire, much to praise. But he blasted the dictatorial methods of President Getulio Vargas. Sore point: the rigid censorship ("so urbane and clever that it lulls many correspondents into voluntary compliance with its blackout of the free press"). Wrote Mr. Sharp...
Sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, she cried: "I am the victim of destiny...
Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer) is so subtle with his -trustful bride (Ingrid Bergman), his motives are so far beyond anything she could imagine, that she falls an easy victim. Husband Anton has a genius for suggestive psychology. Stage by stage his wife loses her trust in her sanity. When she cannot find a brooch he gave her, it never occurs to her that he may have "lost" it for her. When she cannot recall some trifling matter, it never occurs to her that it may never have happened. When she remembers a certain letter which would give her husband...