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Like a dying whale, the monster Academy shindig saved its mightiest thrash for last: to everyone's astonishment, Loretta Young was named (over Competitors Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Dorothy McGuire, Susan Hayward) the year's best cinemactress for her blonde-braided lady-politicking in The Farmer's Daughter. Gurgled Loretta, who had never been...
...Milton or Sainte-Beuve, and would soon become so excited by a point that his chair would scarcely hold him. But his natural dignity never deserted him. When reading a poem aloud, he would sometimes come upon a passage so affecting that he could not read it. He would thrash his legs indignantly, glare at his students, loudly clear his throat, and then try the passage again. Some of his students would swear that he never got half way through Wordsworth's Michael without having to stop...
Unlike the average Victorian hero, Author Collins did not let an angry flush mantle his high brow, and rush off to thrash the cad with a riding crop. Like a sensible novelist, he gently escorted the lady to his house in Harley Street (where she was to live as his mistress for many years) and made haste to turn their fortunate meeting into Chapter I of his next novel, The Woman in White. This novel, and its thrilling successor, The Moonstone, made Wilkie Collins one of Victorian England's richest and most popular writers...
...bullheadedness began to embarrass his G.O.P. colleagues. At week's end the House leadership was ready to call a caucus to thrash out the tax question and avoid an open, intraparty fight...
Scientists from colleges throughout the country will meet with men of the University's Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics to thrash out general technical questions and their practical applications in a series of weekly lectures and forums starting Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock...