Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chevalier's 7,000-word translation, the phrase "as complicated as a Rube Goldberg invention" became "more complicated than existentialism." A "hoot-nanny" emerged as a corrida (i.e., bullfight). Rose's untranslatable "razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz" was altered into the equally untranslatable "plaisanter sur des plaisanteries plaisantes." Rose's laconic account of the end of a riot at his Texas Centennial Exposition ("The brawl was over") was elaborately transformed into "My savage cowboys became as well-behaved as [Paris] street urchins on the day of their First Communion...
Supremely confident ("I think I will bust TV wide open"), Wynn was onstage all but five minutes of the half-hour show, grimacing in a succession of funny hats, outlandish garments and size 13 shoes. The fluttery mannerisms, Rube Goldberg inventions and falsetto giggles were the Wynn trademarks made popular by a long succession of musical comedies (Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 and 1915, The Perfect Fool, Hooray for What...
...assistance, ranging from hydrographic surveys to health advice, to get the program started. Webb's vague generalities on how the program would stimulate world trade and hence the U.S. economy were not the blueprint the committee wanted. Snorted Ohio Republican John M. Vorhys, critic of foreign spending: "Rube Goldberg must have been your consultant...
Died. Buddy Clark (Samuel Goldberg), 38, baritone crooner who progressed from second-string popularity in the '305 to recent high ranking among radio groaners; in the crash of a private airplane; in Los Angeles...
...enormously successful Goldberg scripts have an apple-dumpling flavor-sugary, smooth as butter, pastry-thin in plot and heavily spiced with Bronxisms. What keeps this confection from cloying is Author Berg's tart recognition of human frailties and her blunt but understanding sense of humor. Besides writing, co-directing and bossing her show with an iron will, Gertrude Berg plays Molly, the Goldberg matriarch, with a full complement of shrugs, flutters, malapropisms and a passionate capacity for making something dramatic of the commonplace...