Word: howl
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...loud howl came from New York Star Columnist Albert Deutsch; who had seen the picture in London. Deutsch charged that "even . . . Dickens . . . could not make Fagin half so horrible," and warned that the film would fan the flames of antiSemitism. In Manhattan, the Board of Rabbis appealed to Eric Johnston to keep the movie off U.S. screens. Other Jewish groups took...
Surprisingly, there was no loud howl from radiomen. Everybody seemed to have been expecting it. The new code of the National Association of Broadcasters, radio's own trade organization, is flatly on record, as of July 1, that "any broadcasting designed to 'buy' the radio audience, by requiring it to listen in hope of reward, rather than for quality of entertainment, should be avoided...
...howl of dismay was only one in the millions that made up the screaming wake of China's jet-propelled inflation last week. In two days, while Chiang Kai-shek was desperately trying to bolster the morale of his dispirited armies in Central China, the value of China's currency on Shanghai's black market dropped by half. In Shanghai a wet-nurse unable to find food for her family went on strike, demanding 100 lbs. of rice from her employer. Her nursling's harassed father at last scraped together the necessary $16 million...
Audiences howl at such simplehearted reminders of the days when screen comedy was really crude and sometimes brilliant. If anyone could give them back the genuine thing, he might soon be the richest man in Hollywood...
...National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The banqueters were entertained by a group of high-school singers, who for half an hour sang popular songs, all of them by Songwriter Jerome Kern. At a Manhattan Scout-o-Rama, the Cubs honored Margaret Truman with their "Grand Howl." Replied Margaret...