Word: scorpions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snapped into a tangled mess. He invoked Almighty God, motherhood and the American flag. He accused the FBI of "impairing" defense witnesses. He pronounced the Government's star witness, Whittaker Chambers, a "traitor, thief, liar, perjurer, enemy of his country and a hypocrite," likened him to a coiled scorpion and a germ in a bottle of milk...
...busy priest had little time or patience for formalities. Mostly he dressed in slacks and a sports shirt, and wore his priest's habit only on formal occasions. Learning that a child who died in St. Monica's might have been benefited by Mexican scorpion serum, which was then barred by customs regulations, Father McLoughlin deliberately smuggled some of the serum across the border...
Everything about The Pearl is done with tenderness and devotion, and is moving because of that. Now & then-during the breath-stopping dive for the pearl, the flight across the swamp, or a hair-raising moment when a scorpion crawls down a rope towards the baby-the picture comes fully and fiercely to life. But too often the film's makers confused genuine artistry (which requires a clear, tough sense of reality) with the woozily "artistic...
...time since 1910, Manhattan had a Whistler show. The 47 paintings, watercolors and pastels on exhibition were as soft and sure, and some of them, as beautiful, as a butterfly's landing. The terror of the drawing rooms had passed into history, and his trademark had lost its scorpion sting...
...Jean-Henri Fabre's observations on the life and loves of the Languedoc scorpion...