Word: innuendo
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Kimmel denied that the Roberts Report contained the "basic truth" about Pearl Harbor, and coldly accused the Vice Presidential nominee of falsehood: "Your innuendo that General Walter C. Short and I were not on speaking terms is not true." He predicted that "our people will be amazed by the truth...
...picture aerates a lot of its staleness with pace, surface wit, some crisp acting. As a henpecked satyr, Roland Young is still the alltime master of twiddle, the fatuous innuendo, the Britannic bleat. Fred MacMurray is an experienced cutup too. But some cinemaddicts may feel that Paulette Goddard is on the brink of overstatement when she exclaims: "Every time I see him I get weak in the knees...
...scuttle Puddler Jim at the polls in the April party primary. The party's moneybags, Manufacturer Joe Grundy and Oilman Joe Pew, have a long-standing distaste for Puddler Jim. Only two years ago, 6-ft. Soldier Edward Martin and Puddler Jim were exhausting the vocabulary of political innuendo at each other in the race for Pennsylvania's Governorship. But last week Governor Martin had Puddler Jim over to dinner at the gloomy, gabled Governor's Mansion. They signed a truce. Puddler Jim, faced with fighting alone, had wandered far astray, looking for votes and support...
Frothy Fuddle. The frothy fuddle with which he drops this kind of offbeat remark is the essence of Morgan's radio character. He is never at a loss for a sly ad lib. or a vocal innuendo. As a comedian, Morgan can shoot through the yolk of a new-laid egg "without making the hen get up." For this arch archery he gets $3,500 a week-$1,500 less than Comedienne Brice. He also manages to make several pictures a year for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. But when his own show is airborne, he will cost the sponsor...
...wouldn't have availed you. He really didn't smell bad on purpose. He was a dull normal, his mother probably a moron. When verbal warnings failed to beget the desired attar of roses, teacher moved him four seats from the nearest pupil and by gesture and innuendo, if not by edict, conveyed to the class the idea that Johnny was ostracized. This technique worked beautifully. Johnny too got the idea. They were against him. Ergo, he was against them. So he stabbed the leader of the class in the spine. ... A simple technique is to call...