Word: overpaid
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...London Bill" Tucker's arrogant letter in your Feb. 11 issue-with its haughty gibe about American boys being "overfed, overpaid, oversexed, and over here"-brought back memories of the way we answered this crack during World War II. We damned well let them know that their blokes were underfed, underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower...
...advocating just what Eden did, and the British-hating Dulles. Contrary to what the press would have the U.S. people believe, we in Britain hate your guts and have done so ever since your "good, clean-living American boys" swaggered into England. Our opinion of them is brief: overfed, overpaid, oversexed and over here...
...free. George Raft is the same old master of reptilian menace. The lesser cops and crooks look real enough, but Janet Leigh is too sweet and winsome as a reformed tart; Detective Robert Taylor strolls from pillow to punch, always immaculately and incredibly well-groomed, even for an overpaid...
Celestial Grandmother. Queen Mary never haggled over prices, but she rarely overpaid. And she performed many acts of royal kindness for favored dealers. When one once tripped in the Queen's presence, she said: "I am sure you need glasses. I shall send you to my optician." Another dealer, who collected Chinese lion figures, got one as a present from Queen Mary every Christmas for 20 years; the last one arrived last Christmas, months after her death. It had been wrapped and consigned far in advance...
...inventories held in expectation of shortages that hadn't come. However, things were already getting better. In the last three months, Macy's profits were "substantially greater," and Macy's hoped to get a refund of some $6,000,000 from the Government for overpaid taxes. Another stockholder complained that Macy's real trouble was "Harvarditis-too many Harvard men."* Straus might well look over his staff with an eye to "housecleaning." Added Heckler Gilbert: "If there is another cut in the dividend, the stockholders have the right to ask that Macy's executives take...