Word: mutterings
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...used to slip up to the Catskill resorts on weekends, where he did a stand-up comic shtik using the name Jerry Herring. His fellow students at the yeshiva took a dim view of his enchantment with show business. On his return to classes from the Catskills, they would mutter in Yiddish: "Der bum iz du [The bum is here]." All the same, Cutler was ordained at 24 and served a Conservative congregation in Stamford, Conn., before becoming a reviewer for a film trade paper. He soon switched to hawking talent, managing comics like Slappy White and Stanley Myron Handelman...
...which moonlights as a coffee table), they think I am a man of wealth and taste (or at least one out of the two). If conversation flags, we can browse through it and, depending on our mood, laugh at something we concede is witty, or shake our heads and mutter, "Puerile." Both pastimes are enjoyable. The Lampoon book also makes a nice tray to carry drinks or hot dishes to the table. I suspect it would do an admirable job pressing autumn leaves, but we'll have to wait till autumn rolls around to put it to the test...
...resembles a detective lieutenant of police, much less the hero of a successful television series. But he is both. He is Peter Falk as Columbo, on the NBC series of the same name. Every fourth week, some 37 million viewers tune in avidly to watch him shamble, sniffle, fidget, mutter and gesticulate his way through a case. The fans may be slower to pounce on a clue than he is. But usually they anticipate their favorite Columbo routines-deceptively plodding, cunningly naive-and see them coming a mile off, which is half...
...demand diminishes. Joseph T. Benedict, president of the Worcester, Mass., First Federal Savings and Loan Association, predicts that mortgage rates could come down as low as 8% by midyear. Even if he is right, though, many would-be house buyers have to write off the rest of 1973 and mutter "Wait until next year." Meanwhile, they have to live somewhere, and that necessity provides the only bright spot in an otherwise dreary housing picture. The once sluggish rate of apartment rentals, from Manhattan to Los Angeles, is picking up briskly...
...teams, and will remain on the G.M. payroll as a consultant and become a Cadillac dealer in Florida. That will enable him to collect accrued bonus payments, but also may bar him from working for a competing automaker-to the industry's loss. DeLorean has been heard to mutter that the auto business is something less than all important, and Detroit can use men with that heretical perspective...