Word: humph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the first unveiling of CBS discoveries in the field of color (TIME, Feb. 11), rival networks and laboratories had voiced many a skeptical humph. According to them, color was a good five years off, and the best that television could do now was black & white. A fortnight ago, Allen B. Du Mont, pioneer television promoter, warned: ". . . color television for the home is ... still in the far distant future.. . . The informed, sincere scientist is not convinced by dramatically staged and carefully controlled laboratory demonstrations...
Last week Humph Mitchell said: "There can be quiet today and trouble tomorrow. You have to keep your fingers crossed...
Those pickets around his Washington apartment? Humph! "When those poor scums read my new book-entitled Separation or Mongrelization, Take Your Choice-I'll bet they'll throw up a picket line a mile long...
...major collared me and yowled: "Button your jacket, soldier! Don't you know enough to salute?" Here was what I had been waiting for. What did I do? I buttoned my jacket. I saluted. I said "yessir," and told him I was a civilian. He said, "Humph...
Caught in the act was arch Aiken, the Virginia playboy, who spent a vigilant week-end watching and waiting for Humph Bogart and Lauren Bacall to check in at the Gotham, Arch's big-town hang-out. His patience was not rewarded and friend Aiken had ot settle with a train ride confab with his fellow UVA man, T. B. Perry, 3rd. Old Neil Summers carrot-thatched New Yorker, found the rails a little too boresome and took to the air this week. The result was near disaster, but "Corney" promises better results in the future...