Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George is all the more remarkable be cause, to the naked eye, he is a clown. He is fat, he rolls his eyes, he shakes like jelly, he roars with laughter. He can keep friends in stitches for hours with his stories. The butt of all of them is George himself and that makes good...
...cinematic renaissance. No serious student of Comparative Comedy can afford to finesse this eighty-minute demonstration of diplomatic rompings and political perambulating. Groucho, as Rufus J. Firefly, premier of Freedonia, involves himself in an international embroglio from which not even a rapier-keen cigar can extricate him. His butt is Louis Calhern--since elevated to tonier company as "The Magnificent Yankee"--an embassy villain who early in the film loses his coattails, and his dignity, to the omni-present shears of Harpo, the foursome's fair-haired and superbly equipped delinquent...
Died. Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood, 73, onetime London errand boy who became head of Britain's whop ping Odhams Press (the London Daily Herald, The People, John Butt, News Review*), and a peer; of a heart attack; in London. Stumpy, colorless, hard-work ing (often 16 hours a day), "The Little Man" let his publications maintain conflicting editorial policies, specialized in building them to million-plus circulation...
Britons scarcely noted the first rumblings of an acrimonious debate in the U.S. Congress over the British loan. They were more worried about dried eggs. Long the butt of G.I. wisecracks, the yellow powder is no joke to Britons, and when the Food Ministry announced that the monthly ration of one package (equivalent to twelve eggs) would have to end, there was a housewifely clamor...
Words & Ink. In Paris since liberation, Existentialism had called forth more words and more ink than any intellectual movement since Dadaism ushered in Europe's "lost generation" after World War I. Existentialism has its long-haired snobbish fringe, the butt of short-haired cartoonists (see cut). But the word has filtered down to everyman's and everywoman's level...