Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-Semitism by pompous little Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York, Streicher's organ Der Sturmer declared: "If Christ were again to come to earth and heard Bishop Manning he would say 'this Bishop Manning is an ally of Jews. He is a pseudo-priest, a wolf in sheep's clothing and a twofold child of hell.' That is what Christ would say and he would take a whip and drive Bishop Manning from the temple...
...acquire in the Disney shorts. Songs, dialogue in verse, dialogue in prose and silent sequences with incidental sound and music have been worked into a harmonious pattern. Catchiest tune: Hi-Ho, as the dwarfs trudge home from work. Tunesmiths: Frank Churchill (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf) and Larry Morey. Technicolor is used with simpler and stronger effects than ever before in motion pictures, giving a vital, indelible reality to the fairyland locales...
Other animated cartoons have heroes as bold as the Prince, as resourceful as Mickey or the sensible little pig. Other animated cartoons present portents cataclysmic as the Wolf's house-flattening puffing, physical violence as severe as the heroic bartering Donald Duck undergoes in Modern Inventions. But whereas Popeye's inevitable fight at the finale is almost inevitably cruel, grotesque and ugly, the worst beating ever handed out in a Disney film-the "pacifying" the big wolf gets in Three Little Wolves-somehow manages to be as charming, as delightfully inventive, as it is deserved...
Harlem on the Prairie was designed to play as many as possible of the 800 Negro theatres currently operating in the U. S. It is in no sense a burlesque. Jeff Kincaid (Herbert Jeffries) is very much in earnest about keeping Wolf Cain (Maceo B. Sheffield) from grabbing the cache of gold hidden many years ago by Doc Clayburn (Spencer Williams Jr.). Doc, now an honest peddler of snakebite remedies wants to return the money to the people he took it from in his outlaw days. His daughter, Carolina (Connie Harris), knows they never will be happy lessen...
When three bishops were put in nomination for this strengthened post, it was immediately apparent that one, the incumbent Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, now 66, would have to retire before the next triennial convention (he has furthermore been in poor health), while of the other two, Bishop William Bertrand Stevens, 52, of Los Angeles, or Bishop William George McDowell Jr., 55, of Alabama, either if elected would serve for more than a decade. Last-minute lobbying for a presiding bishop who would be in the saddle a little more briefly, produced, when the bishops gathered to vote behind...