Word: mum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interesting face." Yet Christ is currently much in evidence on British TV. Most startling example: a Passion play in which Christ is a young man with an Elvis Presley haircut, scuffed loafers and worn jeans. The Virgin Mary, plump and nondescript, was the British version of anybody's mum. Pontius Pilate was suave and courteously detached in a well-pressed lounge suit, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette after he signed Christ's death warrant. The Roman soldiers were simple types in British battle dress...
...reversing many Lachner policies. One new policy suited Lachner. Perlstein insisted on a severance contract providing Lachner with more than $3,000 a month through 1961, so long as he makes no criticisms of the Pabst firm or its officers during that time. So far, Lachner has kept prudently mum...
Dance with Mum. Tommy starred in a film (The Tommy Steele Story), followed such stars as Marlene Dietrich and Noel Coward into London's swank Café de Paris, and told his fans how the posh life felt: "I'm the proudest kid in the world-I've danced with my mum in the Café de Paris...
...should have kept mum until success had been attained...
Granted that a heavy percentage of every publisher's seasonal list could well be doused with something or other, preferably Mum, this sort of thing nevertheless will deeply alarm all right-thinking (and right-smelling) readers. The precedent raises dreadful possibilities: a whiff of chloroform for Not As a Stranger, essence of unwashed T-shirt for On the Road and the odor of sanctity for The Power of Positive Thinking...