Word: mum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Briton hates to think of U.S. movies, U.S. ways, U.S. "vulgarity" influencing British culture. Of the two, the American is the touchier. If some excitable Colonel Blimp had thrown a turnip at Ambassador Winant, the U.S. would have hit the international ceiling. Last week Britons were politely, politicly mum...
...Chinese students at Thunderbird last week were traditionally inscrutable. Mum on all matters, they admitted only that they were "velly happy...
Heinrich Bruening, Harvard's mum-keeping Littauer Professor of Government and ex-Chancellor of Germany, bounced back into the headlines yesterday, after negotiated peace rumors, named him as key figure...
...Glamor Tennist Alice Marble got a $1-a-year job with the Office of Civilian Defense to plump for national female fitness......Mum on her reasons, Lillian Gish abruptly checked out of the America First Committee....Birth Controler Margaret Sanger ascribed new difficulties of the birth-control movement in the U.S. to the existence of a totalitarian plot.....Elinor Glyn, who brought forth "It," came away from an interview with Britain's Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was "Vril." She said it meant energy......In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country...
...authors of The Hut-Sut Song-to whose bouncing tune the lyrics of Hot Shot Dawson can easily be sung-last week kept silent as soo-it, mum as a rillerah...