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...anyone managed to surmount these natural obstacles, there would be little enough to spy on. Mum might be cooking up a batch of her special pea soup (secret ingredient: sea salt), Dad might be settled back with some favorite reading material-science-fiction novels and comics, mostly. The whole family could be gathered around the table, enjoying a favorite meal of eggs and chips and larking about, hitting Dad for "requests"-everything from That Doggy in the Window to songs composed on the spot, to order, for whatever child does the asking. Dad may be working on the score...
...court appearance last month, pleading "Not Guilty," and the court appointed a psychiatrist to examine him. Pretrial motions are in the offing, and Spiro-watchers are betting on a temporary insanity plea. No one knows for sure, of course, because his lawyer William P. Homans '41 is mum on the question...
Drastic Love. Most of the stories here revolve around fussy, aging bachelors. The men are, as one tart-tongued female claims, typically Irish victims of "the whole monstrous regiment of wom en from Old Mother Hubbard, and Old Mother Goose, and Holy Mum the Church, down to Mother Ireland and your own dear departed and long-suffering Mother Machree." Thus in Mur der at Cobbler's Hulk, a retired travel agent lives in fastidious loneliness near a remote village. A woman attacks his prim self-sufficiency. "No love. No drink. No friends. No wife. No children. Happy man! Nothing...
...kept mum on sex rock. In 1971, when there were complaints about such suspect drug songs as White Rabbit, Puff the Magic Dragon "and One Toke Over the Line, the FCC drew up guidelines on the airing of dope lyrics. The agency is impotent about sex, however. Explains Jason Shrinsky, the lawyer who represents 200 radio stations before the FCC: "Sex is so subjective. The FCC doesn't know what standard...
...Shaw Taylor, a Peter Sellers lookalike, now hosts Junior Police 5 as well. He cautions tots to consult their parents before taking action, however. The Yard, it seems, does not want a raft of naive informers telling them that the stolen stereos on the show are stashed down in Mum and Dad's basement...