Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...positively that you'd been given any specific answer. One day I finally went up to one of the producers and said: 'How on earth can you get away with it?' He looked me right in the eye and said, 'I don't know what you're talking about...
Says a Manhattan housewife who won nearly $1,500 in a four-day appearance: ''Each morning, before the show goes on, each contestant sees a producer. He says something like 'Well, what will we talk about today? Who holds the record for home runs? You know-Babe Ruth.' Then he'll say: 'How would you recognize David Niven?' Sure enough, when the dots fill in, there's David Niven...
...ready to believe that a Dotto spokesman was talking for every quiz show on the air when he said: "Look, this may be a quiz business to the housewives of America, but to us, it's the entertainment business. There's no reason for the public to know what happens behind the scenes. If you buy a $5.80 seat to a play, why should that entitle you to go backstage...
...know what happened," said Wald ominously, "when Clark Gable didn't have any undershirt on in It Happened One Night. It just about ruined the underwear business. We could do the same thing. There's Gary Grant, see, smoking a cigarette. He coughs, and somebody says, 'I told you to stop smoking.' Or we could have a very young actress look down at the breakfast food and sneer, 'Do I have to? It's like eating the front lawn...
...Young people have forgotten how to cry the blues," said Big Bill Broonzy as he lay dying in a dark room above the littered streets of Chicago's Negro South Side. "Back in my day, the people didn't know nothing else to do but cry. They couldn't say about things that hurt 'em. But now they talks and gets lawyers and things. They don't cry no more...