Word: nosey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line gang boss on a railroad electrification job, tells the story in his own words-a wisecracking lineman's lingo in which an angry character "arcs," gets "hotter than a wet switch''; a nosey one gets "ideas his head ain't insulated for." Like the piano playing of the villain, the plot is as "complicated as a six-track interlocking," contains as many trick effects as an electrical exposition. But when Author Haines writes straight description of wiring a low tunnel, his story delivers useful power...
Fomenting its trade in India, the ring brings disgrace and death to a British colonel. With a gushy American heiress (Loretta Young) tagging along, his four stout sons-Beano (George Sanders), Nosey (David Niven), Stinky (Richard Greene) and Snigglefritz (William Henry) -set out from ancestral Saint John-cum-Leigh (pronounced Sinjin-comely) to un-smirch the escutcheon. Guided by Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass...
...think I have ceased to breed!" announced Humorist Herbert, 47, father of four. "But no one is going to ask me about that. The questions which census agents are to ask from door to door under this Nosey Parker bill are an insult to the nation's women...
...Wood easily shoved his bill through second reading 197-to-125. To get the statistics wanted by the Ministry of Health, he declared, is now "a matter too urgent to await the census of 1941," and within a few weeks British housewives will either be slamming their doors against Nosey Parkers or taking these Ministry of Health bell-pushers into their parlors and their confidence...
Italian planes last week neither bombed the railroad, nor any important Ethiopian town, apparently under orders to save money. Many of the light bombs dropped previously failed to explode. In one village several nosey Ethiopians were blown to bits by banging a dud against a rock...