Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ASCAP planned this succulent banquet, many were the gags about B. M. I.'s musical mashed potatoes. So often had B. M. I.'s Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair been played that she was widely reported to have turned grey. While crooners moaned tunes the old cow died of, ASCAPers rattled the barn doors with parody titles such as: "When the swallows come back to ASCAP-istrano," such rhymes...
...placid Dutchmen found something to laugh at in everything. The day after all newspapers were instructed not to report that anything except cows were hit by British bombs, a wag wrote to one of the papers urging the erection of a monument to "Goebbels' Unknown Cow." After German airplanes and anti-aircraft batteries had worked over The Netherlands for two hours to bring down a runaway British barrage balloon, somebody cracked: "The poor thing finally burst from laughter...
...sets of false teeth, even sold heads of hair for $45. Shearing of the hair-seller was done by a lady barber on a holiday who got $5 for her efforts. One young man brashly agreed to take $2 for every pint of milk he could wring from a cow named Lucky that Bartlett brought to the studio. At show's end, he had made just $2. Other You Sell Me chores are blowing up large balloons till they break, trying to kick oneself in the pants. To protect his show from lawsuits, Bartlett says he is negotiating with...
Jack Oakie and Borden Dairy's glamour cow, Elsie, were grafted onto Louisa May Alcott's actionless story about a country school. The result is a slow-moving film chiefly notable for a few scenes of clever Oakie slapstick and a bovine romance, between Elsic and the bellowing bull down the road. Hopelessly bogged down by poor script and a bustle, Kay Francis gives a mediocre performance...
Last week, as it pushed into the central cow country, the Live Stock Special had drawn 19,000 sightseers in 15 towns. This week the inmates, men and beasts, stretched their legs at Arcadia, held a small rodeo. Ahead lay 20 more stops, perhaps another 30,000 visitors. Ahead also, for Florida, lay potential new wealth. Boss of the trip, A. C. L.'s Victor Wallace Lewis, has run such trains thrice before. He ran one through North Carolina in 1930; in the next ten years North Caro lina's livestock traffic increased 400%. Polite, twinkling-eyed...