Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fort Worth, Tex. prides itself on being a bang-up Western cow town, likes the virile stench of its stockyards, despises cultured Dallas 33 miles to the east. Biggest man of Fort Worth is rich, blustery, football-mad Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Star-Telegram, who seldom misses a chance to publicize his city at Dallas' expense. Four years ago he stole the show from Dallas' official Texas Centennial Exposition by hiring Broadway's Billy Rose to put on a red-hot Frontier Centennial at Fort Worth. Since then Dallasans have burned like a slow fire...
...hung signs on a Curtiz set reading "English Broken Here," "Curtiz Spoken Here." Some Curtizisms: "Next time I send some fool for something I go myself," "Sit a little bit more femine (feminine)," "Act easy-go-lucky." Prop boys on a Curtiz set are supposed to know that "boy cows" are not steers but cow boys. Malapropism is not Curtiz' only peculiarity. He addresses everyone at Warner's up to Bette Davis as "you bum," gives the best borscht bawlings-out in the business. He takes no lunch, tried to coax actors to have an aspirin instead, uses...
...bellies so that the eggs spurt out into a pan. Males are stripped of their milt in the same way, and when the eggs and milt are brought together, fertilization takes place quickly. But experts say that stripping a fighting, kicking steelhead is "like trying to milk a galloping cow with a greased udder." When the fish struggle hardest, large batches of eggs and milt may be sprayed out helter-skelter and lost...
...Wisconsin, tried to get the Congress to denounce the suppression of civil liberties in Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, the invasion of Finland. Not a chance. Complained Mr. Kramer: "I'd like to see a little deviation from the Communist Party line. . . . We never can attack the sacred cow of Russia or of Communism...
...Dead was the sacred-cow tradition that Congress could pass no new tax laws in an election year...