Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the war, Hollywood longingly eyed the very hush-hush activities of the Office of Strategic Services, which was rumored to be parachuting real American spies into occupied Europe. Anyone could predict that such goings-on would some day be a natural for the movies. Sure enough, the minute wartime secrecy was ended, several major studios began stumbling over each other to riffle through the official files. Paramount hired 30 ex-O.S.S. heroes (as technical advisers and bit-players) and shot thrill-packed scenes for seven frantic weeks. Result: Paramount has beaten all competitors with the first movie based...
...evening of the third day, a handful of Londoners - stenographers, shopkeepers, even some Foreign Office toffs -collected about the familiar area now cleared for action. Lieut. Mellor and one sergeant walked into a public convenience marked "Ladies" (where the dynamite plungers had been installed). There was a hush, then Annie exploded, and greyish-black smoke shot up into the clear, rain-washed sunlight...
...hillbilly ballad The Martins and the Coys is a burlesque of backwoods feuding which will delight lovers of radio rurality and of Paul Webb's mountaineer cartoons, and offend those who think such caricature as insulting as the hush-mah-mouf kind of comic contempt for Negroes. All the Cats Join In is a jukebox setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those...
When the Student Council gathered at Phillips Brooks House for its biweekly meeting last night, it found the door to its office on the second floor barred, bolted, and guarded. It's seems that a secret society was holding an ultra-hush-hush session in the lavishly-furnished room which the Council calls home...
...Hollywood, where every sleeve holds a concealed dagger, producers were more than usually wary. On top of processing scads of mystery pictures and several hush-hush mellers about the OSS, Hollywood had a cloak-&-dagger drama of its own: Who will produce the first big atom-bomb picture...