Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young lovers Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton make for the altar. All this and more is accomplished without teeth-clenched daggers, plank-walkings, or hoistings of the Jolly Roger. But this new version has not enough energy and inventiveness to take the place of the old, dependable pirate-movie clich...
...recent spleen on faithless wives of overseas servicemen [TiME, Aug. 6] just barely deserves the dignity of a reply. Nothing is so pitiful as a woman maligning her own sex, and at a time when womanhood should stand together for protection from those who think in little clich...
Senator Taft fought vigorously and well for most of four days. In the clinches he pulled several clichés ("we will just pour $6 billion down a rat hole"). But his infighting was good: he had carefully studied the involved Bretton Woods proposals, which many a Senator obviously had not. At times, Senator Taft had Administration proponents stuck on fine points of the agreement's $8.8 billion monetary fund and $9.1 billion international bank structures (TIME, July...
...brief introduction Wolcott Gibbs pays a toastmaster's tribute to John O'Hara's remarkably accurate ear, to his clear perception of the difference between satire and burlesque, to his characters who, though they are "great ones for clichés, which they usually get just a little wrong," are never caricatures. O'Hara's virtue, says Gibbs, is that he is thoroughly at home an the varied worlds between 52nd Street and Hollywood Boulevard, in one of which "every lady is a tramp and every man an enemy," and in another, "it is possible...
...soldiers. The saying that the U.S. Army abroad consists of "7,000,000 isolationists" got to be a cliché last year. It probably has the faults of most cliches. Last week a TIME correspondent, freshly arrived in Britain from the U.S., told of an impromptu session with hundreds of homesick airmen. What he found was a deep concern in both domestic and foreign affairs, unmatched by anything he had recently seen or heard of at home...