Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year), but his enemies say he works hardest at offending the party's bigwigs with his acidly articulate speeches against the Democratic leaders of Congress, Southern segregationists-any target of opportunity. "There is no question that there's a sit-down on money," says one party wheel horse. "All the other money raisers are cool toward Butler or actually dislike him." In his threatening notice last week, Butler did nothing to appease them. As they well know, some adamantly anti-Butler delegations, notably from the proud South, are likely to find themselves housed in the Pasadena Y.M.C.A...
...world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard. He is furiously honest, but he can spot a rigged wheel with a sharper's skill. He is hard-muscled, handsome, handy with a snub-nosed, 38, and his hide is as tough as the bluing on a pistol barrel. Decent, disillusioned and altogether incredible, he is a soap opera Superman. He is television's "Private...
Private Lives. Hammett had been a Private Eye himself. He knew that "house burglary is probably the poorest-paid trade in the world." He had been mistaken for a Prohibition agent, hired by a woman to fire her housekeeper, was friendly with a man who stole a Ferris wheel. And he had stumbled upon a young woman who did not tell him that she thought his work was interesting. Unlike...
...Paul Muni again-Stranger on the Prowl (1953) was his last picture-and the folksy, matzo-barrel humor is fun. Unfortunately, the picture tells Sam's story for only 20 minutes or so. The rest of the time (about 80 minutes) the audience watches a big wheel (David Wayne) go round in circles trying to get Sam to appear on television and talk pretty for the people. Sam himself makes the only adequate comment on all this. He gets so sick and tired of the television types that he drops dead...
...their dedicated isolation, Shaker communities hit on a host of new forms and techniques that have become commonplace. Before the Civil War, Shakers invented a flat broom, a wheel-driven washing machine, a circular saw, a tilt-back chair (on ball-and-sockets) and, a century before its use in medicine, electric shock therapy, using a primitive static-electricity generator...