Word: adams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then pick me a handful of fruit- Adam and I'll eat it-and the Garden of Eden is all yours. What...
Snake: Wait a minute. It won't work. Adam'll never eat that forbidden apple...
...Holiday Paramount made a determined effort to de-umph Mae West by vacuum-cleaning the script, disguising Mae in a fantastic black French periwig. But, like trying to purify the water by whitewashing the village pump, it did not work. To situations considerably less potential than the story of Adam & Eve, Actress West imparts a meaning all her own; despite all directorial and script-writing efforts to make her steer a straight course, she still writhes as she pleases. As sexless a game as selling a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge resembles, in the West vernacular, a bargain sale of great...
Last month Mae West brought down a deluge of criticism from all over the U. S. by a sexy burlesque of the story of Adam & Eve (TIME, Dec. 27).* Among the 1,000-odd letters of criticism that showered on National Broadcasting Co. was one from FCC asking for a transcript of the program. Last week NBC President Lenox R. Lohr got another letter from FCC, signed by Chairman Frank McNinch. Taking time out from such radio supervising jobs as dividing up the ether, allotting slices of it to broadcasting stations and licensing operators, Mr. McNinch sounded...
...prove his claim, Stuart Chase gives a digest of semantic authorities and then shows how meaningless in the light of their studies are some passages from 'such pundits as Plato, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, President Roosevelt, Walter Lippmann, Henry Ford. He even damns an excerpt from his own writings. As his only ''operational test" he asked 100 people, ranging from schoolboys to Senators, what "fascism" meant to them. They all disliked it, but they had 15 different concepts of what they disliked, including that of a housewife who thought it was "a Florida rattlesnake." Popular ideas...