Word: oatmealization
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...rattlesnakes are often seen. To complete the illusion of country life, almost everybody in Hollywood Hills reads the Canyon Crier (circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial doings at home-and treats Reader Charlie Chaplin the same as his postman-and it pointedly ignores their outside accomplishments. When a subscriber wins an Academy Award...
...working himself into a scene. He uncoiled from his seat, strode onstage and eyed the silent singers. "You've forgotten everything I've told you," he said, with cold distinctness. "Even being opera singers is no excuse for your acting . . . You look like bowls of cold, rancid oatmeal...
...Katharine Hepburn, all on their way to Tanganyika to film C. S. Forester's The African Queen. As the crowd met for noon cocktails and questions, Miss Hepburn jumped at the chance to get off some inside comments (which saw solemn print next day). Dressed in an oatmeal-colored slack suit and flat brown shoes, easily stealing the scene from Mrs. Bogart who wore only a black & white Paris suit, she burbled: "I've been wearing trousers for years ... I know I'm plain and scrawny. I'm tall, skinny, but very determined. I used...
...mythical projectile, described in some ordnance circles as two pounds of cooked oatmeal in a one-pound sack...
...father of twelve children: "I was a strict disciplinarian. I have a glare that makes children most obedient. I may not be a family man, but I am an actor. I hope the mothers of America will soon show me some mercy. Ever since I dumped the bowl of oatmeal on Roddy McCaskill in Sitting Pretty, I have been called on for assistance in rearing the bubble-gum youth of this nation. Through no desire of my own I have become probably the foremost child psychologist in the country...