Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom it was written, had spread copies of it around, in hopes that it would embarrass Tom Dewey (TIME, Oct. 23). It didn't; it was King Macy who got hurt. When the final count was in, Macy had been beaten, by 126 votes, by Democrat-Liberal Ernest Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher. Macy, running for his third term in the House, angrily demanded a recount. It was the first time in 36 years that the district had failed to elect a Republican Congressman. Dewey himself carried the district by 59,000 votes...
Peggy (Universal-International) is a great waste of costly Technicolor and able actors. It sacrifices such good comedy performers as Charles Coburn and Charlotte Greenwood to a humorless, embarrassingly juvenile farce about the efforts of a professor's daughter (Diana Lynn) to escape coronation as queen of the Rose Bowl. For colored-postcard enthusiasts who sit it out, the last reel offers some views of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses...
Promised Land. The first successful colony was established in Greenwood Cemetery, but soon all Brooklyn was occupied. The loud, tough sparrows quickly became well-adjusted Brooklynites, and they found the city a sparrow's paradise. The streets were strewn with the stable midden of the horse-&-buggy age, and under each bright streetlight was a discus of dead bugs...
...Forwarding address, George T. Broman, Greenwood...
...point of flamboyance, and Labor's ranks had loved him dearly. After MacDonald's "betrayal," the embittered Laborites wanted no more color; they wanted a man they could trust. Attlee's sincerity and staying power were patent; the Laborites gave him the leadership when Arthur Greenwood and Morrison, in bitter rivalry, knocked each other out of the ring...