Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warner) has been packed by expert hands with practically everything a film needs for a triumphant box-office tour. In the top drawer of this expensive portmanteau, Ingrid Bergman is wonderfully bewitching in a black wig and bustle, and Gary Cooper drawls and sprawls in his best skin-tight cow-pants. Edna Ferber's plot slides them expertly through a period-piece romance without missing one of the primary Hollywood emotions...
Tears & Champagne. When the U.S. went to war, Lucy gave expensive going-away parties for the sons of prominent families, served the best of champagne. When an Oxnard boy was killed in action, Lucy would visit the bereaved family and bawl like a cow with a thistle in its throat. When President Roosevelt died, Oxnard newspapers carried a paragraph of solemn comment from Lucy as well as from churchmen and other civic leaders...
Artificial insemination has many advantages. On the average dairy farm a bull is dangerous, expensive to keep, and his capacities are rarely put to full use. It is obviously simpler to call a veterinarian and have him serve the cow with one cubic centimeter of high-grade semen in a gelatine capsule or a special syringe. Membership in a typical breeding association costs only $5 a year, plus $6 a year per cow (which entitles each cow to three services a year if necessary...
...young people who combine the homespun qualities of the kid next door with the zany hilarity of the Marx Brothers. One is Darryl Hickman, who plays the omnipresent Pringle moppet. Another is the gawky Courtland, a deadpan, loose-jointed adolescent who can get a laugh by just saying: "Holy cow!" But the most expert of all is Shirley Temple herself, now a first-rate comedienne and a very attractive young lady. While spending her early teens in comparative obscurity, Shirley forgot none of the tricks that once made her the cinema's most dreaded scene thief...
After a reception and a 90-minute drive back to Washington, the President was off on a five-day holiday. It looked for a time as if rainy, foggy weather would hold him back, but at 7 p.m. his "Sacred Cow" transport plane put him down 795 miles away, in front of a cheering crowd at Blytheville...