Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good sense through all the bickering, was still confident. He was sure that he had found a sound campaign argument in the record of the 80th Congress. In his own homely style he would pound it home across the nation. And his fortunes and popularity would probably rise a bit. They could hardly sink lower...
...last novel, The Big Fisherman, and was going to have it published on his own terms: "There will be no movie, no radio broadcasts, no condensations, no serializations, and no book clubs . . . Anybody who wants this book will have to buy it from a book store." Calming down a bit, in an interview with Script Magazine, he added: "I'm just an irascible old man who has written a book and wants it to stay a book...
...want to be a good actress," she said, "concentrate on it. Without hard work we just achieve nothing." Delivered of this thought, Mlle. Mala told Nicky to "oval out [Irene's] jaws . . . utilize the cheekbones . . . bring more personality to the eyes . . . give the lips a little bit more luscious look...
Cecil B. DeMille was doing some heavy tinkering with the story of Samson and Delilah (starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr); the account in the Book of Judges still seemed a bit thin. If A Streetcar Named Desire ever gets made into a movie, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Bette Davis, Deborah Kerr, Olivia De Havilland and Greer Garson all have a bid in to play the heroine, a boozy chippy. Twentieth Century-Fox shelled out "more than $75,000" for Ernest Hemingway's twelve-year-old short story, The Snows of Kilimanjaro...
...pilot described what it felt like: "The radio static kept building in intensity until I couldn't keep the earphone close to my ears. I heard what sounded like the sharp burst of a German 88 millimeter. A sheet of flame enveloped the whole cockpit. Everything looked a bit fuzzy . . . the instruments jumped around so much that I couldn't tell for a moment what was going on. I just let the airplane buck through...