Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PRINCETON, N. J., October 11--"It looks pretty Coulsen," said the Sage to his Oriental sidekick, "and to be perfectly Franke, I Mead a drink. Besides, I'm pretty Finical about Howe tomorrow's game will go; you have to be Keuffel about these Harvard-Princeton contests...
Love (Miss Hasso), his past (Miss Landis) and even a glimmering of conscience eventually intervene. The silky criminal's sidekick (Akim Tamiroff), a Sancho Panza type who prefers the homelier crimes like murder, opposes the renegade and suffers the consequences. The picture tactfully ends as M. Vidocq settles down to full-time virtue...
...sloughs of scandal which would have sucked down a dozen ordinary politicians. In 1910, as a drink-cadging state legislator, he heard the State Senate pronounce him "unfit to sit with upright men." He was jailed in 1923 for refusing to testify in a seduction suit against his political sidekick, Governor Lee M. Russell. He divorced his wife; she accused him of cruelty and a succession of infidelities, publicly begged Mississippi's women to vote against...
...Majesty's Major General Eric Mansergh had flown into Den Pasar from his Surabaya headquarters. The Netherlands' towheaded Colonel Fritz ter Meulen had arrived with his two-battalion Dutch occupation force. Japanese Army Colonel Kobungo Tsunuka and his naval sidekick, Captain Shizuo Okuyama, gravely waddled across Den Pasar's village square and presented their swords to the British commander. But only 300 Balinese solemnly watched the surrender. Exclaimed an officer who had known pageant-loving Bali before the war: "Godalmighty, there would have been 10,000 at a celebration like this...
Anchors Aweigh (M.G.M.), a shore-leave saga with music, dancing, and Technicolor's full palette, is easily the pleasantest couple of hours that can be bought currently in a movie theater. Its standard-bearers : Gene Kelly, a sailor fairly enough described as the Sea Wolf; his sidekick Frank Sinatra, a shy type but eager to learn; Kathryn Grayson, a movie extra who wants to become a famous singer; and José Iturbi, who is surprised but very nice about it when Miss Grayson, being kidded by the sailors, turns up for an audition...