Word: drowne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Los Angeles baroque" which, he says, looks like a Cunard liner. He used to write Hollywood movie scripts at $2.750 a week. Before that, as managing editor of the old New York American, he liked to lean back in his editorial chair and play an accordion to drown out the roaring of the Hearst press. Earlier still, as a wild young newspaperman in Denver, he toted firearms in a city room, fell in love, married, wore Jack Dempsey's cinnamon-brown, pearl-buttoned overcoat on his honeymoon...
...ebullient Danny Kaye as a meek milkman. At picture's start, Danny's nag passes out between the shafts. Danny, who has to pull Sam Goldwyn's rather cumbrous vehicle practically unaided, also works like a horse. He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling...
...More Dunkirks. Britain's Labor Government heard the moaning, promptly ordered up Churchillian propaganda guns to drown the noise. Prime Minister Attlee appointed a three-man Cabinet committee to plan the strategy for "the Battle of the Bread." Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams launched a new "Dig for Victory" campaign. Lord Aberconway, president of the Royal Horticultural Society, announced that his members would continue to resist the temptation to reconvert to flowers. Pert Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson appealed to Britons to carry on in "the Dunkirk spirit...
...lifelong intellectual homosexuality between Reese and Gary. It also reports one or two murders, a suicide or two, a raid on a dingy brothel (in which Anne-Charlotte is caught), and an unflagging succession of orgiastic parties at which the tobacco scions and their bibulous set try to drown their boredom. Out of these Freudian fandangos, Author Wilder has written a highly readable novel whose episodes are frequently breathless, whose dialogue is crisp, crackling and gamy. The total effect is like watching laboratory rats whirl around more & more madly in a botr tie exhausted of everything but oxygen. The prose...
...addition to this, Leopold Stokowski has been highly criticized by the musical world for his expansion of Bach chamber works to the facilities of a Wagnerian orchestra. When Koussevitzky follows, the same criticism must be applied to him; when he allows his large string section to drown out the Brandenburg soloists, he is clearly guilty of a breach in taste...