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...deliver the male. Best line is punched out by Tony Randall, playing as usual the sort of neurotic who, when hurt, hollers "Couch!" When the chemist cooks up a batch of intoxicating mints, Tony gobbles a fistful, gets drunk and belligerent. "Drunk!" he bellows. "Whaddya mean, drunk? I can (hic) hold my candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pillow Replumped | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...leftist intellectuals of the period, many of whom saw in Socialism an outlet for idealistic views of human potential. Howard Fast, for example, upon leaving the Communist party in 1956, denounced it in a book called The Naked God. The title succinctly sums up Fast's attitude of worship, hic communism of illusion, an attitude obverse to Brecht's communism of disillusion...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Bertolt Brecht's Communist Writings: The Poetry and Politics of Disillusion | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...show turned out to be a fine one, as the Band did one of its cleverest formations--a bottle pouring into a cocktail glass the word "Hic...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: University Band Celebrates 40th Anniversary | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

...notes that a restaurant menu offers a dreaded veal cutlet. He suggests that hic jacet is a sport coat from the corn belt and that ad nauseam is a sickening advertisement. He even tells a dream girl on an ocean liner: "If you care to take a turn on deck, you'll find me forward. Possibly even a bit unscrupulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virtue of Vice | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...cunuchis plerumque non cst cavenduml Nisi cunuchus non cst verus cunuchus sed ardens adulcscens, cui sunt tales vires ingenue quales illis custodibus severis Kerby-Molitori ct Leightono interdum molestac sint. Cum hic cunuchus falsus--immo vero hic Gactulus lco--per cuiusdam servi callidi insidias domum intrat quam suac deliciac Pamphila ct illa merctrix splendida Thais habitant, quac flagitia quac implications amatoriacl Pro Venere omnes militant non sinc gloria. Sed de argumento satis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Eunucho Harvardiano | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

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