Word: flubdubs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...balding Tommy Dorsey, 41, knocked the clarinet's balding Benny Goodman, 38, through the music stands. When Goodman arrived late on the job and tootled tootles that weren't in the script, Dorsey got his dander up. The standard Hollywood windmilling followed -and then the standard flubdub to the press. Goodman: "I was just sitting there playing my clarinet when I got hit." Dorsey: "I couldn't punch my way out of a paper...
...down when a radio mike was set before him at a Washington press conference. He put the mike on the floor and his foot on the mike (see cut). His explanation: "I can't talk freely if this is to be broadcast." Mutual broadcast some of the muffled flubdub anyway, presented it as "what Henry Wallace sounds like talking out of his left foot...
...Eugene Kelly's) most famous specialty is baiting William Green: 'Come, come, Mr. Green, will you stop handing us that flubdub...
TIME erred in implying that Reporter Kelly made President Green the sole butt of his baiting. Reporter Kelly's usual comment at conferences with Secretary of Labor Perkins is: "Well, we see you've been defending John Lewis again." TIME also erred in substituting "flubdub"' for Reporter Kelly's far better word, "flapdoodle...
...Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome and for the law in Philadelphia and Washington. His most famous specialty is baiting William Green: "Come, come, Mr. Green, will you stop handing us that flubdub...