Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the McCarthy v. Army hearings, Jenkins' most important connection with the military was a stint in the Army on the Mexican border in 1916, another stint in the Navy during World War I. He thought about becoming a professional baseball pitcher (he had a wicked spit-ball), but...
Actress Elsa Lanchester, playing a nightclub date at Manhattan's Blue Angel, shuddered to recall some of her movie roles. "I was a loathsome bearded lady in The Big Top, a resurrected corpse in The Bride of Frankenstein, and I'll play the wicked stepmother in Cinderella," said...
Compliments from fellow writers are piled like clover on the jacket of Poet Randall Jarrell's first novel, Pictures from an Institution. "While busy at his mighty task, how gay he seems; how gay we are as we look on! How can we ever thank him?" asks Poetess Marianne...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, got so tired of the great sleuth that he had wicked Professor Moriarty shove him over a waterfall, restored him to life only after a public clamor. Humorist Stephen Leacock also tried his hand at rubbing Sherlock out: he put him on...
When Dietrich closes her eyes, lights up a long cigarette, and croaks something about being a bad girl, she does more for vice than Prohibition or the Anti-Saloon League. In Seven Sinners she in 1940's version of the Wicked Woman and once again makes the occupation seem more...