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...court action to stop the work of Director Gregory Ratoff, whose production is succinctly titled Oscar Wilde. Then Allen told the London press: "I don't really recognize Mr. Ratoff and his film. It's just a quickie." Retorted Old Hollywood Hand Ratoff in his fractured English: "Hokay. The blawdy baddle is on." The squabble, snickered the London Evening Standard, would have been laughed off by "the Great Oscar himself" as "the pursuit by the unspeakable of the unfilmable." Chortled the London Daily Express: "May the worst side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 18, 1960 | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

...campaign workers with the cheerful promise to vote for everybody. "Hey, Louie!" yelled a friend. "See you pan hana [after work]? Plenty feesh at Kapukamoi!" Replied Louie in pidgin English: "No more da car. Da ole lady bin go Lihue today." "I pick you up?" offered the friend. "Hokay!" yelled Louie, as he ducked into the schoolhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAWAII: The Big Change | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...before the fun began. Grumbled City Editor John McMullan of the Miami Herald: "It's insane to go all this distance for a beer." But the newsmen rallied to go out on the town, happily gawked at bare-breasted stripteasers, encountered flocks of B-girls ("Darling, ees eet hokay eef I have anod-der veeskie?"), and learned to down the whisky bamby: a $5 wallop of orange and pineapple juice built around a big dollop of Scotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barrel of Fun | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...natcherly) strawnger So Churchill hokay in a seer ius way But a (sob) laff is more needed by pipple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...matter how great the artist, Promoter S. (for Sol for Solomon) Hurok always gives himself top billing. Says he: "Audiences . . . know whatever S. Hurok presents is hokay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Care & Feeding of Artists | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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