Word: comments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still, there's the comment...
...painting, which has aroused storms of both favorable and unfavorable comment, depicts the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica in 1937 by the air force of insurgent General France. It was done by Picasso for the Loyalist government as a condemnation of the raid which virtually annihilated the population and town of the sacred Basque shrine...
Lunchroom Proprietor H. B. Clifford collected the kiss Paulette Goddard had promised the man who brought the most aluminum to her door. It lasted 45 seconds, by the stop watch of Cecil B. De Mille. Running comment was provided by Mrs. Clifford: "You old fool. . . . What's an old man like you doing this for? . . . He never kissed me like that. . . . Cliff! You stop that! (De Mille: 'Time.') . . . You come right on home. . . . And wipe off your mouth!" ∙ ∙ Errol Flynn whacked Columnist Jimmie Fidler in a nightclub, claimed Mrs. Fidler wounded...
...other notable things: he took on all comers, fought 20 times in four years, was never accused of a fixed fight, an unfair punch, a disparaging comment. "I want to fight honest," he has often told newsmen, "so that the next colored boy can get the same kinda break I got. If I 'cut the fool,' I'll let my people down...
...girls were rated on four classifications--complexion, figure, looks, and brain, and most had some comment across the bottom of the card. "Free and easy" and "Torrid" were the most common remarks. One card significantly revealed two words: "Hot" with a line drawn through it, and directly beneath it, "Reformed...