Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that I have any objections to Billy Rose's avowed quest in life of acquiring money for its mere possession, but I do not see why such a pursuit warrants his picture as a cover for your illustrious publication...
...Music, drama and the other arts . . . have been invaded by sensationalism. Human friendship and love between men & women have been perverted . . . into mere physical excitement. Are we . . . headed for a debauch of excitement which will result in the sickness of disillusionment and the headache of regret...
...years, Hollywood had used a special phrase-"boffo terrif." By last week Hollywood knew that it was time to use another phrase; things had changed. Movie attendance ("boffo") was down 25%-45% in extreme cases. In the nation's theaters, business had slipped until it was a mere "boffo sensational...
...Eton's standards a mere babe in the educational woods, Trinity College (Cambridge) last week had a birthday too. King George VI, a Trinity man himself, showed up for the 400th birthday party. Beneath a Holbein portrait of Henry VIII, who founded Trinity, George raised his glass in a toast: ". . . Like many of you undergraduates, I myself came here [in 1919] straight from the fighting services, and I found in the atmosphere of Cambridge ... a steady and mellowing influence." Others under the influence: Newton, Bacon, Coke, Byron, Dryden, Tennyson...
Radio rarely wields any lance more deadly than a squirt of toothpaste. The mere thought of radio talking back to the press gives most newsmen a belly laugh. Yet for the last two weeks CBS has done just that-it has criticized the press with such spirit and point that it has got right under the thick, ink-smudged hide of several Manhattan dailies...