Word: fella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Result of this flexible system: it gives the individual businessman leeway to do his best individual work. Said Mr. Willkie: "The enterprise fella can enterprise. You ought to see the way Rootes goes after his job. Most of them are thinking, 'If we can outperform the Government arsenals, we can convert them into private factories after the war and there won't be any nonsense about whether private enterprise will survive or not.' So they're working their shirts off. Of course they also have the motive of patriotism, but the big thing is their natural...
...London Times neglected to list his program. On another occasion, sharing a 15-minute overseas talk with Actor Leslie Howard, he stomped angrily around the studio, trumpeted within Howard's hearing that he couldn't write a good script for a program shared by "an actor fella." Always surcharged with temperament, he arrives at BBC headquarters at 8 or 9 for his overseas broadcasts, sulks fiercely if program directors and other minor officials don't sit around with him until he goes on at 2 in the morning. Easier to handle last week was his substitute, Novelist...
...57th Street's Fine Arts Galleries, at 50? a peek. All indications were that, as a come-on curiosity, Adam might run a close second to John Wilkes Booth's mummy or the Cardiff giant. Said a weary gallery attendant: "It's enough to make a fella blush." "I don't know why Eve fell for that guy," muttered one observer. "My dear young woman," retorted a nearby dowager, "she had no choice...
...Wolf and the Obey (pronounced obee) Rivers run together to make the Cumberland, Billy Hull moved with his bride, a Virginia girl named Elizabeth Riley, whose family had some Cherokee blood. Billy walked with a sidewise slouch. Even after he was rich he was "an ornery-dressin' fella." He often went to Nashville "wearin' no more than five dollars worth of clothes." Elizabeth was tall, dark, sweet-eyed. Their first home was a sheephouse; their first furniture some chestnut stumps for table and chairs; their first bed Elizabeth's riding-skirt filled with rushes...
...Light That Failed (Paramount). Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Dudley Digges struggle with Kiplingesque stoicism through the somewhat dated heroics and stout fella philosophy of Rudyard Kipling's first novel, made into a picture for the second time. Ida Lupino (re-emerging after a long hibernation) throws a rousing fit of hysterics as the hoydenish model who defaces Ronald Colman's pictorial masterpiece just after he goes blind. Unfortunately for the tragic effect, cinemaudiences can see for themselves that the blind artist's masterpiece is a daub...