Word: cuttlefish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to tell from his hesitation in the days preceding recognition of Israel by Britain. Winston Churchill, fresh and saucy after a vacation on the French Riviera, raked him with merciless verbal talons. Churchill spoke of "folly, fatuity and futility . . . the quintessence of maladresse" and compared Bevin to a cuttlefish which retires "under a cloud of inky water and vapor . . . to some obscure retreat...
...Recently it has been very difficult for shoemakers or shoe-repairmen to obtain leather for repair. In Okayama Prefecture a shoe-repairman noticed that a cuttlefish is shaped much like the sole of a shoe. He painted in black ink on dry cuttlefish and used them as shoe soles." (Price of dry cuttlefish: 7 to 10 yen; cost of shoe-repairing...
...Century-Fox) is a rare coin that has been stolen from a dreary Pasadena mansion. Raymond Chandler's famed private detective Philip Marlowe, this time played by George Montgomery,* is hired to recover it. In no time at all, the simple-looking case has branched out like a cuttlefish. The bulldoggish old dowager (Florence Bates) who hired Marlowe unaccountably fires him. He stays on for the sake of her frightened secretary (Nancy Guild), who can't bear to be touched by a man but wants to get over her peculiarity. The detective also tangles with a gang...
...July 4, no golden tourbillions will cascade fire down the night sky. There will be no blinding saucisson shells, no bengolas, no spidery pyro cuttlefish, no earwhacking bombshells, no climactic Niagara Falls. The U.S. is without its tradition al fireworks (except for a few bootleg pops) because the whole fireworks indus try has become a sizzling skyrocket...