Word: fuselis
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Last week the dynamite exploded-in the face of the man who lit the fuse. After sifting evidence for five weeks, the committee found only two leaking offenders. One had been paid ?5 a week by Editor Guy Schofield of Lord Rothermere's Evening News; Schofield refused to tell the name. The other was garrulous Garry Allighan himself. He had admitted getting ?30 a week for passing along confidential information to the "enterprising" Evening Standard...
...Korda and his actors fail to make in movie terms. In fact, a good 95% of Macomber is a remarkably exciting picture for mature audiences. The worst of Hollywood's "improvements" on the original story is the did-she-or-didn't-she ending, which pulls the fuse out of Hemingway's whole payoff...
...Georgian stretches of Kirkland House. Sacrificing towers, gothic frills and the trimmings to the more pretentious castles along Mt. Auburn Street, Kirkland has watched its legend grow from the strong soil of diverse interests that make up this cosmopolitan House. More than any other, Kirkland has managed to fuse its genuine cross-section of Harvard into a tightly-working group that yearly supports its teams with periodic rallies, and its activities with the only House yearbook to grace local shelves...
...pleasant concoction of witty comedy and realistic social satire, "Storm in a Teacup" is serious without being pedantic, funny without being cute. Its ingredients--poor journalist, rich girl, villainous father-seem trite only when taken from their content. Fast dialogue and expert acting fuse these elements into a picture that is still timely ten years after it was produced in England...
...Force that through the green fuse drives the flower...