Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply advised them that in the opinion of the B.F.S.S. it was inadvisable to cooperate in the making of this film." Dejected, the moviemakers returned to London. "We hope that somewhere," wrote Messrs. Powell and Pressburger to the Times last week, "there is a Master of Foxhounds with a mind of his own and enough sporting blood to help us finish this film...
Nobody was sure who started the rough stuff. The important difference was that Army did not allow its own share in the Donnybrook to take its mind off such chores as blocking and pass defense. And slowly Army's class began to tell...
...girls were middle-aged but determinedly young in heart, well-upholstered but hopefully just about to reduce, relentlessly uplift-minded and bewilderedly civic-conscious. Overwhelmed by the mysteries of the inheritance tax, the Hokinson matron asked: "How much would my tax be if I left it all to the government?" With a memorable culture-or-bust look, she inquired of a bookstore clerk: "Isn't it about time another one of John Gunther's 'Insides' came out?" And she begged her hairdresser: "Now please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman...
...most familiar habitat of the Hokinson girl was the club meeting, with Madam President on the rostrum (see cut), perhaps telling the girls: "The treasurer wants me to announce that unless some of the members pay their back dues, she will simply lose her mind." In Miss Hokinson's own favorite cartoon, her heroine was telephoning home from the police station with a contrite bulletin: "Albert, I did something wrong on the George Washington Bridge...
...front in the circulation parade is Britain's (and the world's) biggest newspaper, News of the World (circ. 8,320,000). In one recent issue, News of the World readers were served up such titillating headlines as WOMAN SCREAMED IN BUS QUEUE, CLERK WITH SPLIT MIND IN 4 A.M. HOTEL SCENE; UNCLE AND PARENT TO SAME CHILDREN; MEN THRASHED PIG UNTIL IT DIED. But what really sells the News of the World is not its headlines but its detailed, deadpan reporting of court testimony in all manner of sex and criminal cases. Sample, from last week...