Word: cur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each opening were seven men whose arrivals in the theater were meticulously noted by people on both sides of the curtain. The seven: New York's big daily newspaper critics, who wield a power in their field that few newsmen can match. As soon as the final cur tain touched the stage, four of them hurried for the exits and made for their offices, where within one hour they had written their reviews and sent them to the composing rooms of the morning papers. Their verdict: Ondine, mixed praise; The Winner, mixed disappointment...
...appointed bosses of the state-run "trade unions," were converging on Bilbao to halt the spreading unrest. "These poor fellows are not to blame," said one of the bosses. "There are some very delicate angles. The French say cherchez la femme. Here in Spain we might say cherchez le cur...
...Hurt Cur. Mrs. Heady last week showed no remorse at hearing her confession read in court. She lolled, squinted and smiled, scratched her nose, plucked at her shoulder straps. The next day she was less content. Hall's confession was read, and Bonnie reacted with a hurt-cur look to his frequent references to her being drunk and "again inebriated." Hall said that when he was arrested in St. Louis by Police Lieut. Shoulders and a patrolman, he still had about $592,000 of the $600,000 ransom money. Some $300,000 is still missing...
...Attack. In Philadelphia, firemen blamed the burning of Mrs. Hattie Cur ry's house on a bird that tried to use a lighted cigarette to build its nest...
...place with their identification papers. The German soldiers began roughly turning people out of their houses. "Get up to the square," some of them shouted in French. The sick came in their pajamas. Marcelin Thomas, the town baker, appeared, stripped to the waist and still covered with flour, while Curé Jacques Lorich strode along hatless. Mothers came pushing baby carriages. In less than 20 minutes, the populace was assembled, about a third of them children. Only then did the French notice that these were no ordinary Germans...