Word: boob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...format, Haldeman-Julius tried the same boob-catcher with another De Maupassant classic, Room No. 11, the story of a two-timing wife. His new title: What Happened in Room...
...last columns for Hearst's King Features Syndicate, Runyon wrote a review of his own work. Said Runyon of Runyon: "By saying something with a half-boob air ... he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage . . . He is a hired Hessian of the type writer ... I tell you Runyon has subtlety but it is the considered opinion of this reviewer that it is a great pity the guy did not remain a rebel out & out, even...
...Fuller Brush Man (Columbia), an eager boob played by Red Skelton, attracts trouble as infallibly as he repels sales prospects. When one of the latter is murdered, Red is suspected. He spends the rest of the picture chin-deep in gunmen, detectives and pretty girls. One of the girls, Janet Blair, is about the prettiest sweater model in movies; Skelton, given half a chance, can be quite funny; the scripters have given him better-than-average chances...
...quite a Hollywood careeer of inspiring heroes, especially composers (the film George Gershwin and the film Cole Porter, both under Alexis' magic spell, sat right down and dashed off their best music). But she doesn't quite click with the screen's young Maugham. The poor boob goes right on yearning for that impossible, vulgar hashslinger...
...Damon Runyon in a simulation of humor often manages to say things which, if said in a serious tone might be erased because he is not supposed to say things like that. By saying something with a half-boob air . . . he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage. . . . The newspapers of today are full of high-wire walkers like the Runyon of Short Takes . . . he is a hired Hessian of the typewriter ... a disguised defeatist...