Word: phffft
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...succession of inane interviews. Sample: "Here's Jackie Cooper-how are you liking this, Jackie?" Jackie (plugging his play, King of Hearts) said it was wonderful, just wonderful. So did Virginia Mayo (plugging Warner's The Silver Chalice), Judy Holliday (plugging Phffft), Carol Haney (plugging The Pajama Game), and Pinky Lee (plugging himself). Whenever Commentators Francis and Downs ran out of comments-which was frequently-the TV camera returned to the studio for commercials by Tootsie Roll, Crosley, Heinz, Alcoa, and U.S..toy manufacturers. There was not much time left for the parade...
...Phffft! Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday, as man and exwife, give a wacky answer to the divorce question (TIME...
...Phffft! (Columbia) is the sound made by an expiring match-the kind that gutters out in gossip columns. "Don't say it," runs the sales slogan for the picture, "see it!" The advice is sensible...
Blondie, Jack Lemmon her disinterested Dagwood. and everything goes phffft! one night because of the leer that crawls over Jack's face as he wallows through a whodunit, where it describes how "she began, one button at a time, to undo the front of her sweater . . ." Judy flounces off to get a divorce; Jack takes up bachelor quarters with a friend (Jack Carson...
...headed "This Town of Ours," later "Man About Town") which made a specialty of entertaining and impudent eavesdropping ("Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poem writer, just bought a new set of store teeth"). He invented "welded," "sealed" and "middle aisled" to mean married, "renovated," "wilted" and "have phffft" for parted or divorced. And a glimmering interest in politics was evidenced in this item printed in September 1932: " 'Sonny' Whitney has dropped the name of Vanderbilt because 'it is incongruous' . . . Sonny also doesn't want you to call him 'Sonny' now that...