Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabeth, got their biggest chuckles from Rube Goldbergish efforts like W. Heath Robinson's Magnetic Method of Stretching Spaghetti (at the expense of Britain's face-lengthening austerity program) and H. M. Bateman's Tragedy at Wellington Barracks, a study in horror-struck faces as a butter-fingered guardsman on parade drops his rifle. It was dapper Australian-born Cartoonist Bateman who had started the whole thing in a speech to the Royal Society last February, declaring it was high time the British had a "National Academy of Humorous Art." Last week's show...
...course I don't own a pair of stockings to my name, my husband has sometimes had only one pair of threadbare trousers, but we have always had meat every day, plenty of eggs, milk, and real butter to eat, and TIME to read...
...portraits and paintings of apple trees in blossom and luminous, leggy nudes are all done with slapdash delight; they have none of the sharpness or strangeness that make his books memorable, infuriating or a bore. Compared with his writings, Cummings' art seems as soft and wholesome as fresh butter...
...five times in rapid succession, giving the effect of a bad attack of hiccoughs, or a worn record turning in the same groove. To keep the gags rolling, he deploys a whole passel of comics, including Rudy Vallee, with pince-nez and purse-mouthed antics, Hugh Herbert as a butter-fingered doctor, and a couple of yowling hillbilly pinheads (Sterling Holloway and Danny Jackson). None of them is as funny as they were plainly meant...
...economic questions that plagued Argentina-falling production, lack of dollars, shrinking markets-were right up Bruce's alley. Persistently, he used his backslapping sessions with Perón to dish out a businessman's advice. Once he suggested that Argentina export more butter. "But we don't produce enough butter to export any," argued Perón. "If you will allow exporters a free hand in exporting butter, you would produce enough," answered Bruce...