Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come out of the wings since Milton Berle was a Wunderkind. Young Jerry already has good control of half-a-dozen comedy styles. He can deliver a gag, dance & sing, play the sappy adolescent ("If I go wit' girls, I get pimples") or ape a romantic singer ("Dance, Mrs. Resnick, dance!"). When Dean asks, "Why did you bring your car to New York?" Jerry says, in what seems the perfect answer for Jerry: "I need it here for accidents...
...Shmoo-shaped potatoes. But the postman also brought a mailbag of protests. Reader R.E. Wilkinson thought Shmoos were definitely un-British. Wrote he: "The Shmoos are encouraging the very characteristics that are ruining this country ... lazy-mindedness and the deliberate pursuit of everything that is slovenly and American." A Mrs. Collins found the drawing "ridiculous" and the language "unintelligible...
...left arm. He called to his wife Eva, who brought him a glass of brandy and promised to call the doctor. After a second drink she handed him a mirror, showed him that his lips were not blue, as they had been in his original attack. Then Mrs. Harrison, a schoolteacher who has learned practical psychology by handling 4-B children, confessed that she had only pretended to call the doctor. Harrison now recognizes his own neurotic symptoms, but he has not played the Mozart quartet since that October evening a year and a half...
...Sample membership: James F. Brownlee, chairman of the Business-Education Committee of the Committee for Economic Development; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Lester B. Granger, executive director of the National Urban League.; Leo Perlis, national director of the National C.I.O. Community Services Committee; Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the board of R. H. Macy & Co.; Richard Joyce Smith, chairman of the Board of Education of Fairfield, Conn.; James A. Stevenson, president of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. The full committee will total...
...Mrs. Hutchinson protested that it was all unfair, but everyone knew that the lottery had been run in perfect order, and the postmaster quietly went about preparing slips for another drawing in the Hutchinson family. The kids drew first, then the parents. Mrs. Hutchinson drew the slip with the black mark...