Word: cornelia
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...movement's name: the Cornelian Corner, from 1) Cornelia, Roman mother of the Gracchi, who called her sons her "jewels," and 2) the time-honored maternal practice of turning toward a corner, away from the family, when nursing a baby. Its president: Detroit Psychiatrist Max Wolfe...
Information Please (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Fred Allen and Cornelia Otis Skinner help Experts John Kieran and Franklin P. Adams answer questions muffed during the past season...
...last reel, Cornelia and her mastodan are quite chummy, though no one in the audience is told what, if any, their future plans may be. But, as we have said before, no one really cares very much anyway...
Charming is a much overworked little word, but it is nevertheless the most fitting description of "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay." It is definitely a charming picture. Paramount has clothed the Emily Kimbrough-Cornelia Skinner biography with a trail little plot, but no one seems to mind very much...
...Mussolini marched in, to Berlin when Naziism still wore swaddling clothes, to Paris on the eve of the Munich pact. It shows the young diplomat Alex Hazen (Dennis King) marrying not the serious-minded girl he loves (Barbara O'Neil) but her more conventional best friend (Cornelia Otis Skinner). The women become estranged; later the other woman becomes Alex's mistress. But not till the reunion in Washington is the true nature of their roles brought to light: it was less their feeling for Alex that actuated the women than their desire to hurt each other...