Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What news isn't of "legitimate public interest"? No newsman could give a final answer. The New York Times is decently mum on many a scandal that the hard-eyed New York Daily News delights to mock and maul. In the current American Mercury, Chicago Lawyer Mitchell Dawson tries to fix the legal boundary between privacy and the press. Actually, says he, the right of privacy is neither ancient nor inalienable. It was formulated no longer ago than 1890, by Louis Brandeis, later Supreme Court Justice, and his law partner, Samuel D. Warren, in a magazine article prompted...
Jubilant Boudrean Mum on Series Plans...
...starting out very modestly on the shortest possible shoestring," explained General Manager John T. McManus, former TIME and PM writer and leftish ex-president of the New York local of the American Newspaper Guild. He was mum on who supplied the shoestring. Top editors will be British-born Cedric Belfrage, onetime cinema critic for the London Daily Express, and James Aronson, New York newsman. Among the contributors: Author Louis Adamic, Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the Churchman; Roger (American Past) Butterfield, Sportwriter John Lardner and his screenwriter brother Ring Jr. (one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"); Max Werner...
Exceeding the speed of sound in a brief power dive is not the same thing as flying continuously faster than sound in level flight. U.S. planes are rumored to have done it too. But if they have, the military has chosen to keep mum...
...bosses took over the Mitchum case fast. The garrulous actor, his fellow partygoers, and even the arresting officers fell suddenly mum. Studio press-agents whispered "confidentially" that the case looked like a frame-up. With Mitchum out on $1,000 bail and brooding in silence, statements began to rumble smoothly out of the front offices...