Word: commanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...mind, author Vincent Carroll's major achievement in this play is the character of Canon Skerritt. After a too leisurely opening scene, his entrance is a refreshing one; the play seems to change its caliber immediately. In him, the play wright's command of limpid, precise prose is very powerful. And more, the Canon is a rounded character whose pomposity and reverence of classicism are explored in skillful detail. This character receives full understanding and appreciation in the hands of Thayer David. David gives a performance which is remarkable for its restraint and technical perfection. And Julie Haydon, the guest...
...quiet, little (5 ft. 7½ in., 140 Ibs.) Clem Attlee stood head & shoulders above his fellow Laborite leaders. This was true even though he lacked Aneurin Bevan's fiery eloquence, Herbert Morrison's parliamentary skill, Sir Stafford Cripps's brilliance and Ernest Bevin's command of the warm loyalty of millions of unionists. What Attlee did have was political balance and a sense of timing. These faculties were all-important as the Labor Party walked a tightrope with militant socialism on its left and a wary middle class on its right. Labor would need...
Spruce from a new overhaul, the mighty U.S.S. Missouri-the only active battleship in the U.S. Navy-steamed out of Norfolk last week headed for Caribbean maneuvers. For lean, strong-jawed Captain W. D. Brown, it was the first trip since he took command last December. Just past Old Point Comfort, the Mighty Mo swung to the north of the familiar channel to run a new acoustic range. The Mighty Mo never swung back. With the sickening sensation that only a sailor can know, Captain Brown felt his ship touch bottom. Slowly, majestically, the 57,600 tons of the Mighty...
...move." The men looked up to see the business ends of six short-nosed revolvers. Behind the guns were six men in grotesque rubber Halloween masks, chauffeurs' caps and Navy peacoats. "Oh, my God!" groaned Cashier Thomas B. Lloyd. At the gang leader's command, Lloyd ordered a clerk to open a mesh door into the vault room...
...character largely inspired by much-decorated Major General Frank A. Armstrong Jr., now chief of the Alaskan Air Command, who led the first Flying Fortress daylight assault against the Continent...