Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsa Maxwell fluttered Hollywood last week with a party celebrating French liberation. She had sent out the invitations in early August, while the Allies were still in Normandy. Said she: "I just had a hunch-anyway, France is very close to my heart. Some of my best parties were given there." Among the entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color...
...choice as to the month of the end of this phase of the War showed no unanimity of opinion. The period of December 1945 through January 1946 seemed to be the choice of the majority--not very strong--with a total of 24 percent having the hunch that Hirohito will throw in the Imperial sponge during those two months...
Questioning hundreds of victims, Fritchey came across the name of a sucker named "Dacek" who had sunk $83,000 in 4,400 grave sites. Fritchey's hunch: that "Dacek" was Louis J. Cadek, a big-bellied, mysteriously prosperous police captain. Working with Cleveland prosecutors, Fritchey traced to Captain Cadek a fortune of $109,000 in Prohibition bootleggers' bribes. When the graft cleanup was over the captain and five other high-ranking cops were in prison, several others had lost their jobs. The cemetery racket was washed...
Most of the action shots showing the attack on New Britain were made the day after last Christmas. In the U.S. that was Christmas day, the audience is told, while it watches young fighting men hunch miserably in the drenching rain. Some of the commentary in Attack is mawkishly "American," but most of it is as direct and unaffected as most of the shots. There are clearly some fine anonymous camera and sound men in the Signal Corps. The clanging iron gangways, the rattle of unloading, the grunt and nutter of motors struggling in the mud add much...
Years ago Australian police had sent Mrs. Flemington photos of the Pajama Girl. She had denied that the mangled face could be her daughter's. But she kept on having dreams that her daughter was afloat. Last month a weary Sydney detective, rereading a Flemington appeal, had a hunch: a dentist was found who could say positively that the Pajama Girl's dentistry tallied with Linda's. After that, everyone remembered details-how the pretty, sharp-featured Linda had clerked in a store, ushered in a cinema, shipped as hairdresser on Red Star liners; how Antonio...