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...they should be further thankful to director James Awe. Quite obviously Awe has this musical comedy business down cold. The actors are always audible. Their voices are gusty when necessary and moderated when inuendo is desired. The show moves along at a professional clip, scene changes are effected with a minimum of interrupting, and the sets are good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/7/1951 | See Source »

Patterned after suggestions approved by the American Association of Colleges, the policy states that no teacher may use the classroom as a vehicle for furthering his own opinions; that teachers of controversial topics should "set forth justly without suppression or inuendo, the divergent opinions of other investigators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn State Sets Policy On Academic Freedom | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Here, too, is the calculated note of inuendo. While undergraduates shamelessly carry translations to class and exchange opinions with tutors as to the merits, financial and scholarly, of various houses, while instructors shamelessly advise their disciples to make use of these nefarious products, "The students make clandestine use of these abridgements," and professors and instructors have reported to me a number of instances in which students have actually been caught with these abridgements in their possession." For final delight, one finds in somber sincerity an advocate for purveyors of erudition who, with uncanny regularity, find pernicious errors and ommissions within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widow, Weep For Me | 5/4/1933 | See Source »

...manner of the East, the conversations, held in the foothills of the Atlas mountains, begun by long and polite exchanges. Even then the point could not be broached directly. A long, a very long list of topics must be discussed before the word "ransom" could be even mentioned by inuendo. Thus the parley went on for some days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ransom | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...overshadowing the continuous inuendo of traction scandal that has been the chief note of New York news columns for some time past come the startling reports of the corruption of the police officials, which cannot but reflect on the present administration. Perhaps the satellites of the Enright regime have overstepped and taken in too much hush money for "restoring" stolen automobiles and furthering the illicit liquor traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE KNICKERBOCKER CANON | 2/3/1921 | See Source »

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