Word: haddock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the summer's first heat wave helped the sales of Goodall Co.'s famed lightweight Palm Beach suits, it left Goodall's President Elmer L. Ward cold as a haddock. To clear the decks for a new, improved suit this fall, he decided to slash his "fair-trade" (i.e., fixed) prices by 29%, from...
...lovers and the child make each other quite a lot of needless trouble before they get their differences settled. Except for a keenly bracing ten minutes of pursuit and rescue in troubled waters, the picture is about as exciting as a plate of boiled haddock. Yet the story's very quietness is rather pleasant. All the outdoor shots were made in Maine, and are much better than average to look at; but for some strange reason the crisp camera work is steeped in sepia so rich that the whole world looks like strong tea. There is competent character acting...
Ordinarily the stage, at the close of Hamlet, is so heavy with corpses that it looks like a hold full of haddock. But Olivier's camera threads among the dead & dying with special tact...
Oldtime Journalist Dudley Haddock may rest assured that our school of journalism here is doing its best to lick unreadable copy...
...Sideliner Dudley Haddock [TIME, March 22] get his eye back on the ball game. Graduates of journalism schools can't be held responsible, as he believes, for the ills of today's press. As yet, said graduates are still the minority in a majority of U.S. newsrooms...