Word: highfalutin
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Here again is Southern woman sore beset, hounded by desire and hobbled by gentility, and wrecked not so much by passion as by the attempt to give it a prettier name, to deny its carnal nature. Alma Winemiller (Margaret Phillips) is a minister's repressed, highfalutin daughter, passionately in love with the hell-raising son of the doctor next door. Possibly John Buchanan (nicely played by Tod Andrews) would have fallen for Alma had not her ladylike insistences, her chatter about the spiritual side of love, been too much for him. By the time Alma looks sex squarely...
...Highflown trumpeter and highfalutin high priest of beboppers...
...farmer himself who understands farm problems; that he knows how to handle Communists (keep them out in the open where they can be watched); that the Administration is bungling the U.S. into war. But mainly he tried to sell himself as a solid good fellow and no highfalutin' Easterner...
...their trainer, who runs them up & down to get them into fighting trim, tosses them in the air and catches them to toughen up their bodies. They are fed special diets, which chicken men usually try to keep secret from each other. John Kehoe feeds his cocks such highfalutin food as cakes with French brandy, oysters, apples, sprouted oats, plain oats, eggs and flint corn. On the third day of the Orlando tournament last week (the fights go on for six hours a day and cost $7 to see), Kehoe's grey muffs lost their first two fights...
...Gallup methods are as highfalutin as the language. A radio star's E.Q. is figured by equating the percentage of people who confess to having heard him (Gallup calls it "public familiarity") against the response he gets ("audience enthusiasm"). Unlike Hooper, who uses the telephone, Gallup will rely on house-to-house canvassing. He will make a distinction between programs that depend on a personality and straight musical or dramatic shows. Further, he will make tests to help sponsors find out what type of show will best suit the "personality" of the product (e.g., a children's program...