Word: goddam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wended endless miles of desolate country, relieved only by hundreds of gold-leafed temples. Once I saw a yellow-skirted Poonghie-a Burmese priest-and the driver screamed: "Goddam priests, every other one of 'em is a traitor or a Japanese in disguise and nobody dares touch 'em for fear of starting an insurrection." Later I saw Chinese soldiers leading a priest, two handsome Burmese with long flowing hair, bare to the waist and hands tied behind their backs, to be executed...
...stood it as long as she could during the filming of Vigil in the Night, finally phoned her agent from her bed at 5 o'clock one morning: "I just thought what that pacing and thoughtful look of Stevens' mean." "What?" asked the sleepy agent. "Not a goddam thing," said she, and went back to sleep...
...Shanghai Gesture (Pressburger; United Artists) is a film perversion of Playwright John Colton's flaming melodrama of 16 years ago. Most of its original bawdy plot, language, atmosphere and characterization has been removed. Mother Goddam (Florence Reed in the stage version) is now Mother Gin Sling (Ona Munson), no longer proprietress of a Chinese bawdy house, but of a gambling casino. As such, she is not sinister but gaudy. So is the pretentious picture...
Last week a bomb dropped on this comparative industrial paradise. OPM still remained, precariously, in the "no squawks" category, but OPACS was now, according to one radio bigwig, "a bunch of goddam, nitwitted, half-baked college graduates." Reason: a new civilian allocation order for plastics raw materials (induced by an OPM priorities order on formaldehyde, other chemicals, and their synthetic resins). The order eliminated their use for radio cabinets, 40% of which are now made of plastics...
...crook no matter what business I had entered, providing I'd been successful." Admitting that radio is still a bit callow, Schechter is certain its newscasting is reasonably mature. Proud of his job, he says expansively: "It is like being the city editor of the whole goddam world...