Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lineup today from left end to right end will be Larry Connell, Joe George, Don Hill, Jim Gross, Bob Foster, Art Hodges, and Warren Puff. Ron Johannson will be at quarterback, Mickey Maguire at left half, Tom Lawson at right half, and Tony Marlowe at fullback...
...biennial convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bricklayers Union were happily engaged in the normal pursuits of a beer bust one night last week when a pair of topflight Democratic politicians dropped in. He hoped, said Adlai Stevenson, that his amiable and popular companion, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson, would be re-elected by a big majority. Then he added: "And I hope he can carry somebody else along with...
...reader who hacks his way through this exotic vegetation discovers that Yancey is awaiting execution at the state penitentiary. This event clouds the day of Stella Madden, the governor's wife, and brings emotional upset to Lucy Warren, who once taught Yancey in school. By evening, Yancey is dead, Stella relieved, Lucy resigned. Along the way Author Downey explores the moods, memories and relationships of the two women. Scene after scene is interestingly done, but as a whole, the book is too much like the red japonicas Stella dotes over: dazzling but insubstantial...
Though most of the characters in the spectacle are simply victims of Dore Schary's imagination, several manage to rise above the genre. Far the best performance is Ethel Barrymore's. As old Mrs. Warren, she is as fantastical a grandmother as ever there was. Half-crazy she lies on her bed, her great cat-eyes wide muttering like Tieresias. But, in the end, since no one else can do it, she unearths a revolver from behind her bed, and, tough as Bronko Nagurski, she appears at the head of the stairs to pump most of her dozen shots into...
Though few of the other roles are so demanding, all of the actors murder and are murdered with a great good will. As Professor Warren, Mr. Brent is cunning and insidiously affable. In the role of the dumb girl Miss McGuire is really appealing. Most of the other people are one-sided and pleasantly so. Dead or drunk, each has a part...