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...still stands impressively erect to his full 6 ft. 2, is remarkably healthy. He still bubbles with new ideas for his publications, over which he maintains the vigilance of a whimsical despot. His newspapers are still wild-eyed, red-inked, impulsive, dogmatic, often inaccurate, and littered with grade-A, boob-catching circulation features. Currently Hearstpapers are making lurid attacks against "Stalin's Monstrous Double-Dealing," and are promoting "Total Warfare Against Japan . . . NOW." But Hearst personally has mellowed in his declining years, if his press has not. A recent edict of "advice to reporters and editors" said: "Be courteous...
...thumbnail classic on Latin American politics. Mencken has heard all the great U.S. exhorters, from William Jennings Bryan on, and it is his considered opinion that none was "worthy of being put in the same species, or even in the same genus, as Gerald L. K. Smith ... a boob-bumper worth going miles to see and hear." Mencken heard Smith speak on the same platform with Father Coughlin and win hands down, despite his opponent's "habit of enforcing his points by revolving his backside...
...hand are many samples of Goldberg's recent serious side: political cartoons he has drawn for the New York Sun since 1938. But though some are effective, Goldberg fans spent the most time with such famed Goldbergiana as the Boob McNutt series, Lala Palooza, and Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, who demonstrates his Simple Bookmark, operated by the lifting of reading glasses, which releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb...
...Manhattan, nightspots and boob-traps are roaring despite some 400,000 unemployed New Yorkers and a citywide dimout which has made Broadway the Great Dark Way. On the East Side zebra-striped El Morocco is open this summer for the first time in its ten-year history, and officers' caps are stacked six deep in the checkroom. At the Stork Club a hip-provoking rumba band helps lure 40% more business than last year. Nightclub-pocked 52nd Street jumps and jives until 4 almost every morning; famed Leon & Eddie's packs them in with come-ons like pretty...
...Boob-Thumper. Those who were surprised by Gerald Smith's audacious bid for the nomination do not know Gerald Smith. Huey Long called him a better rabble-rouser than himself, a tribute which pleased Gerald Smith as much as H. L. Mencken's appraisal of him as the "champion boob-thumper of all epochs...