Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casey's relations with the News have been cordial, except for a bit of trouble some years ago when he was asked to cover an Illinois wolf hunt on an expense account of $10. His itemized list included such expenditures as: "To rent car Chicago to Springfield,1?; gas for same, 1?; oil for same, 5? (it was an oil eater); to rent horse, 1?; hay, 5 mills; to rent glasses to look at wolf, 1?." After worrying the subject for a while, Casey discovered he had spent only $9.90. He polished off the matter by adding: "Wolfbane...
Lionized, publicized, feted, decorated, when he got back from France modest Sergeant York just went home to his family farm in the Valley of the Three Forks of the Wolf. On the way the No. 1 U.S. war hero quietly passed up a fortune in commercial publicity ventures. One of them was an offer from Jesse L. Lasky to make a picture. The hero's flat refusal stuck hard in Producer Lasky's craw. In the spring of 1940, he finally persuaded the Hero York that it had become a patriotic duty to film his life...
...master bedrooms, a fabulous hand-decorated, two-story ballroom and immense dining rooms, stood on Bellevue Avenue, along with the palaces of the Whitneys, the Belmonts, the Havemeyers, Fahnestocks, Goulds and Astors. In those days, hard-eyed, black-mustached, hard-driving tycoons (who enjoyed such titles as "the Wolf of Wall Street," "the Pirate," "the Robber Baron," "the Plunger" or "the Looter of the Erie") were generally terrorized by their little women, who in mortal rivalry built great houses which, after the next crash, became known as Somebody's Folly...
Time was when the Marx Brothers' talent for violent lunacy whelped the belly-wrinkling hysteria of such superb stage and cinema farces as The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera. Big Store is just the Marx Brothers nostalgically going through the motions of helping Detective Wolf J. Flywheel (Groucho Marx), Housekeeper Wacky (Harpo Marx) and Pianist Ravelli (Chico Marx) catch a killer in the bargain basement. Absurdity (as in the incredible chase sequences) is substituted for comedy...
...Nazi surface raiders and "wolf-packs" of small submarines...