Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alterations. Without admitting that he might be easy to get, Maury paid a few courting calls, waddled brightly around hotel lobbies, bought himself a plot in the city cemetery, and visited refuse-clogged Alazan Creek, which had flash-flooded San Antonio time & again. Some of the old machine bosses tried to head him off. And round-faced Sheriff Owen Kilday, who had engineered Maverick's defeat in 1941, had yet to declare for anybody...
Ploughmen, Yes. Leather-skinned Fausto Marcelli is a ploughman. He has eleven children, born with annual regularity over eleven years. Fausto likes big families-"It's good to have lots of workers"-but there has to be work to do. "Our plot at Frosinone is pretty good earth, but I'd need a lot more to feed 13 people. They have told me that the earth in Argentina is good-as black as a pair of new boots"-and Fausto rubs together his calloused, white-knuckled fingers as if feeling the black earth there in his hands...
...With special reference to pseudo-intellectualism, flaunting of the discharge button, and sundry other affectations," the discussions was scheduled for February 29. When reached last night, Ernest I. Sly '43 would only say, "The whole idea finks of a filthy plot against the proletariat...
Since Holmes' time structures housing the Cambridge Electric Light Co. and the Church Street Garage have grown up on the nether limits of the burying ground, and a large Texaco gasoline sign stares down on it with almost sacrilegious familiarity, but this small plot has outlived many such indignities in its time. In 1700 the caretaker was allowed to pasture his sheep here and in more recent years, on Saturday mornings, it made an ideal wild west setting for dramatic gun play after the horse opera at the U.T. During the administration of Roosevelt II, however, measures were taken...
...current Westerns can only be judged on the basis of actor appeal, the magnitude of the technicolor spectacle, number of hoof-beats per square actor. "California" fails miserably on the first two counts and barely comes within minimum standards on the last. Where the hero generally carries the plot on his godlike shoulders and livens the dialogue with sardonic humor, a miscast Ray Milland almost appears to be a slightly paunchy heel...