Word: ears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Airlines gravely announced that its passengers "will be encouraged to munch peppermint candies" instead of chewing gum, the traditional way to overcome ear discomfort. American's medical department found, in "a careful investigation," that candy works just as well...
...wears such a high polish that readers may scarcely realize it is essentially an old shoe: the same kind of satiric article Frederic Wakeman tried to fit on the advertising business in The Hucksters. Weidman's is the better fit. His boardroom oratory and office memoranda strike the ear with just the right sound of bursting fruit, and he can nail his types with the deftness of a bartender spearing a cherry with a toothpick. Says one of his newspaper executives, nodding toward his wife and suggesting another round of drinks: "I have an old beat-up legman here...
...World Charm." U.S. justice, in the person of Federal Judge Harold Medina, listened patiently, though patience was tried to the breaking point. Justice had lent its ear while the Reds' lawyers tediously cross-examined 24 jurors, trying to prove that New York federal juries discriminated against Negroes, Jews, the poor. Rocking back & forth in a high-backed chair, Jurist Medina now & again pleaded with the Communists' shouting, ranting lawyers to remember where they were. Justice was also debonair and deft, so that even Party-Liner Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast, writing in the Communist Daily Worker, acknowledged Medina...
...Wayne, who can be remembered for his excellent performance in "Red River," does rather well as the hero, a tough sea captain. Where the script calls for fast, brutal action, Mr. Wayne provides some exciting moments, but he is obviously ill at ease when required to drool into the ear of his sweetheart, Gail Russell. Luther Adler plays opposite Wayne as a calculating Dutch trader. The part written for him is so ridiculous, so frighteningly sinister that it becomes impossible to tell whether he can act or not. A ham could wallow in this muck forever and no one would...
...Bough (by Joseph Hayes; produced by Charles P. Heidt) was the worst sort of drivel-the pretentious sort. Dredging up everything stark, fleshly and Freudian in the theater from early O'Neill to Tennessee Williams, it became a kind of Carryall Named Desire. Without taste or talent, ear for speech or eye for character, Playwright Hayes showed how a city boy's dissolute family and a country girl's disapproving one worked to prevent their marrying. Seldom has the course of true love run rougher-among souses and trollops, past theft and rape. Love eventually triumphed...