Word: mum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demerit. He was bounced from Los Angeles' most fashionable nightclub, the Troubadour, for ribald heckling of the Smothers Brothers. On the way out with his secretary May Pang, Lennon threw a right at Freelance Photographer Brenda Mary Perkins, who filed a complaint with the police. Lennon is uncharacteristically mum on the subject. Taking his lawyer's advice, he said: "No comment...
...fact, Mrs. Frost was so convinced that New York Cover Girl Karen Graham was going to be her daughter-in-law that she gave her some of Son David Frost's favorite recipes. "He likes my lemon meringue pie very strong, tart and lemony," advised Mum. As it turned out, Frost, 34, never got a chance to try Karen's culinary skills. Just two days before they were to be married by Evangelist Billy Graham in a Manhattan ceremony, Karen slipped away to Chicago and married Las Vegas Investor Del Coleman, leaving Frost, whose engagement to Actress Diahann...
...through and through--she finally succumbs to. He gets his first handle on her heart when he outwits her in a deal over a Louis XVI table, and he clinches the matter when he stands up to the taunts of her intellectual friends. Out of ignorance he keeps mum at a Christmas soiree while three of these pink-faced friends debate Marx and the Church--they talk hollow-voiced in five syllable jargon and make their points with snaky fingertip gestures. When Simon interrupts to protest their irreverence, they quiz him on his culture, until, failed and furious, he takes...
...parties anyway. And she would torture herself beforehand into the Look, a wasp-haired caricature, binding her curls tightly in a turban around her head, in a towel steamed for straightening. And she would chatter, and the pink would glow in her face. But then she would stand mum and prudish all night and hate herself in a corner. Afterwards, I'd try to comfort her, doing a stint of complaining myself to cheer her up. She never believed though, that I could hurt, too. She wanted, you see, what she only imagined...
After Judge John J. Sirica sentenced Liddy to up to 20 years and the others to even stiffer terms, but with the promise that he would review the penalties if they spoke up, Liddy remained mum and received an additional sentence for contempt of court. McCord took the suggestion to heart, and he wrote Sirica, charging that higher authorities had been involved in a coverup. With that, the whole attempt at concealment began to collapse...