Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that only one of the flacks your reporter noticed in my apartment is my own. The other was lent to me by Dr. Leon Page of Coolidge, Ariz. My own flack had unfortunately broken down and the good doctor was kind enough to allow me to use his until mine was repaired. Dr. Page's flack is a much better one than my own, having been made in Leipzig by Gustav Schmidt, an old master flackmaker. Leipzig, as you know, was for years the flack center of the world...
...Make Mine Mink. British Comedian Terry-Thomas' usual weedy charm and blithering idiocy wonderfully enliven a piece about a retired major turned modern Robin Hood...
...have flaws," gloats the nasty duke in The Thirteen Clocks, "and mine is being wicked." Thurber might have written the line to be spoken by David Merrick, the most consistently successful producer on Broadway. For something over a decade, Merrick. now 49, has thrown himself with glee into the passionate pursuit of two goals-turning out shows and making enemies. There is no reliable head-count of the showman's enemies, but Merrick has had 20 shows on Broadway since 1954, and 15 of them qualify as hits. No other producer, including Mike Todd, Flo Ziegfeld or the Shuberts...
...Neither with books nor with women. But at my age and because of the novels that I have written, the game follows a different pattern. They know that I know their wiles and they know mine. We waste less time...
...Make Mine Mink. British Comedian Terry-Thomas' usual weedy charm and blithering idiocy enliven a piece about a retired major turned modern Robin Hood...