Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks Perón had been maneuvering his flyswatter nearer & nearer the gadfly Socialist weekly La Vanguardia. First he closed Vanguardia's B.A. plant, on the deadpan excuse that it violated municipal ordinances (TIME, Sept. 8). Since then the Socialists have skipped from one secret printing plant to another, sometimes publishing on wrapping paper, but always publishing. Last week Perón seemed to have the swatter poised; a new decree required each paper to carry its printer's name and address on penalty of confiscation of the issue...
...copies of TIME, LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post. Newsstand shipments of TIME were getting "lost" in the Argentine customs. Last week the 52-year-old Socialist bi-weekly Vanguardia, outspokenly anti-Perón, was hit hard; the Buenos Aires municipal government shut down its printing plant. The deadpan reason: its newsprint rolls, unloaded on the sidewalk, obstructed traffic...
...Saroyan's deadpan description of its plot: "The story of a man who spends all his life in penitentiaries while society tries to determine his guilt, which appears to be that he was born out of wedlock. When his innocence is established, he is 80 years old and eager to find a wife and raise a family. On the first day of his freedom he dies in the arms of a girl of eleven who is placed in a house of correction where she dies in childbirth. Her infant son is placed in a foundling home where...
...Presidenta, her waxen face as deadpan as it always is when she is not smiling, will insist time & again that her husband governs alone, neither asking nor getting her advice. "I am his wife," she says, "and I am interested only in social work...
...reporters had also never seen in action a Russian quite so engaging as Jacob M. Lomakin, ex-Tassman, now consul general in New York City. A near-facsimile of cinemanful James Cagney, ebullient Consul Lomakin had no battery of deadpan advisers; behind him at each session sat a pert and pretty Russian blonde. Unlike icily aloof Andrei Gromyko, Lomakin chatted easily with those near him. He called the other delegates "fellow experts," and he uttered such un-Soviet statements as "We don't need to be consulting Moscow all the time," and "I will go along with what...