Word: innuendoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last twelve years at Sarah Lawrence College. Russian-born Marya Zaturenska won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for her book of poems, Cold Morning Sky. The Mandarin prose of the Gregorys sometimes gets out of hand, running to dreamy convolutions, their urbanity sometimes permits open enjoyment of an innuendo none too polite; their estimates of one or two poets, notably John Gould Fletcher, are horrifyingly kind, and of one or two others, notably Laura Riding, apparently insensible. But in the main, the chapters of this book are civilized, clear, usefully illustrated and deeply meditated...
Jascha Heifefz and the Hollywood Bowl had words. The Bowl management made public covert cracks about "certain artists" wanting a lot of money and then deciding not to play. Heifetz promptly fielded the innuendo. The Bowl, said he to the public, had begged him to play, and he had agreed to for $5,000, and then the Bowl itself had called it off. Well, sure, said the Bowl-Heifetz had promised not to tell how much he was being paid, and then he went and told. Now everybody was getting expensive ideas. "Such things as artistic interests," intoned Heifetz...
...sacrificed in vain, and rumors of assassination were still whispered in Bangkok's dance halls, where the girls did their turns in deepest mourning. With heavy innuendo a Chinese-language newspaper suggested that Dictator Premier Pridhi had found Ananda's love for the U.S. was as dangerous as the U.S. guns Ananda collected. "Ananda fell victim of an American bullet because he played too much and too carelessly with an American gun," it said...
Taking over vacationing Washington Columnist John O'Donnell's envenomed spot in the News, she unreeled 800 words of innuendo directed at Mrs. Truman. When Madame Chiang Kai-shek visited the White House she had been so sorry, Ruth wrote, that Mrs. Truman was away in Missouri. Ah. but actually-Ruth confided to the Daily News's 2,000,000 readers-Mrs. Truman had been in the White House all the time...
Lloyd Tilgham Binford, dour, dogmatic chairman of the Memphis Board of Censors, has long prided himself on being able to whiff a movie innuendo or spot a suggestive line even before it is suggested. Since 1928, 76-year-old Mr. Binford has kept the Lower Chickasaw Bluff pure by dooming or doctoring many a movie...