Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think his voice will register. His objection is that cinema is essentially a pantomimic art. Says he: "Action is more generally understood than words. Like the Chinese symbolism it will mean different things according to its scenic connotation. Listen to a description of some unfamiliar object-an African wart hog, for example. Then look at a picture of the animal and see how surprised...
...once quarantined on a yacht for many days). Like the New Colonial's "Lighthouse" is the Fort Montagu's "Jungle," a place removed from sleepy guests where the gay and wakeful may dance and drink long after midnight. Smartest part of Nassau (except for Government House) is Hog Island, the long narrow sandspit that turns its elegant back on the harbor, the odorous sponge and market docks. On Hog Island is the Porcupine Club, for swanky and exclusive food, drink and bathing. Nearby is also the home of Nassau's greatest dowager, Lady Williams Taylor. Beyond...
...Star Spangled Banner." Far to the east are the smoke and glare of the great new Bethlehem Steel mills. North of Baltimore planes detour to give a wide berth to the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Thence: Havre de Grace racetrack; Philadelphia's desolate Sesquicentennial Exposition site; Hog Island...
...oldtime Palmer House. Onetime office-devil of his father's country newspaper at Lapeer, Mich., Adman Kudner has been a concert singer, police reporter, magazine contributor, versifier, political writer. Framed over his desk is his favorite definition of advertising, a quotation from Fred Patzel, 1926 World Champion Hog Caller: "You've got to have appeal as well as power in your voice. You've got to con-.vince the hogs you have something for them...
Lisbon papers rumored last week that what had roused President Carmona (himself addicted to fountain pens) to have the inkstand made was the wedding of Princess Marie Jose of Belgium (TIME, Jan. 13). Finding it necessary to order a candelabra for H. R. H., he went the whole hog, ordered the Peace Palace's inkstand too, plus a tray for it to stand on, plus two goose quill pens...