Word: innuendo
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...Home-Ma's Upstairs (Nellie Lutcher; Capitol; 45 r.p.m.). Another empty-parlor innuendo by the breathless, excitable Nellie Lutcher of Hurry On Down fame...
...getting "dialogue assists" from Actress Drake) wants to picture "a very attractive couple in the $25,000-a-year class...the kind of people we'd like most to be." The show will contain "no platforms, no politics, no message." Nothing, in fact, but a little spicy innuendo and a succession of comic crises based on domestic misunderstandings...
...vague. Hickenlooper mumbled that Pike was a "square peg in a round hole," added later that Pike had always been opposed to the H-bomb. "I don't know what their gripe is," Pike declared. "Whatever the reason was, it wasn't stated either directly or by innuendo." Last year, because "we didn't have the dope in front of us as to what we would be getting for what we were spending," he had been doubtful about the H-bomb, he added. But "as the facts came in, my attitude did change." One guess...
Dulles, Ives recalled, had been "the victim of innuendo and misrepresentation." His competence had been questioned by Lehman, his international experience attacked by the Democratic organization (in newspaper ads) as "a myth." Sentences from Dulles' writings were taken out of context "in an effort to represent that his major loyalty was to the German I. G. Farben ... It was alleged that the Nazis were-and are-his clients . . . that he had looked with favor upon the rape of Czechoslovakia and that he favored the aggressive wars of the Axis. Attempt was made to identify him with the German-American...
...while the sun shines in neutral Eire and his realization that his manly pride depends on his returning to embattled Britain. Similarly, he is the sort of a man who loves to hide his capacity for love and loyalty under a leering, winking mask of sexy chatter and innuendo ("Let me tell you," he assured young Albert, referring to the departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir to give her a long bong jour . . ."). Charley alone is enough to show why Novelist Elizabeth Bowen considers Henry Green...