Word: crumpeted
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...English, it seems, have never had the pleasure of eating English muffins unless they happened to come to the U.S. The closest thing they have to one is a toasted crumpet, which is about as close as a shrimp is to an oyster. And when playing pool in England, you can make a drastic mistake by complimenting someone on his "English." A Briton would prefer that you admired his "screw...
...orchestral musicians, my colleagues and I have long suffered under overpaid, mediocre leaders who have charmed the ladies of the symphony associations in the tea-and-crumpet circuit. I can only hope that Piatigorsky's book [Feb. 5] will help awaken the public...
Sandy Wilson, whose musical The Boy Friend (1954) was one of the few exceptions to the rule that a British musical is at best a sort of muted crumpet, has updated the old Boy by ten years. The sequel, now playing the West End, is called Divorce Me, Darling and spoofs the very same characters. In this one, however, the time is the 1930s rather than the '20s, and all the pretty young flappers have become sophisticated, cheating wives. The songs and routines are primarily parodies-of Cole and Noel, Fred and Ginger-and occasionally they are bang...
...guys had to do was to jump over Taylor's half-dead body and be careful not to fall in the Elbe. Back in London, Soldier Taylor gives a curt goodbye to an English girl (Dana Wynter)-whose heart breaks in a nice, quiet English way, like a crumpet-and ships back to the little woman and the big house in Connecticut, where he clearly intends to trade in that olive drab for a grey flannel suit...
...humor of the feature is pretty laborious, there are some funny shorts on the bill. In one of them Robert Benchley says funny things about sleeping; and another, Christopher Crumpet's Playmate, has a happy ending. Two are Mr. Magoo. Through two of his wildest endings Magoo remains imperturbable...