Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropole (by William Walden; produced by Max Gordon) was a short-lived satiric farce which tried to poke fun at The New Yorker magazine and its fabulous editor, Harold W. Ross. Calling the magazine Metropole and the editor Frederick M. Hill, it depicted the wacky office life of a well-mannered publication, portrayed an explosive editor suffering from absentmindedness and ulcers...
...sent to Fairbanks to be tested. Next day a plane brought copies of the Fairbanks News-Miner with a sad story. All but two of the nuggets were brass. And the two (total worth: $2) were worn, as if they had been carried for a long time in a poke or pocket...
Offstage, Piaf, now 33, is more hoyden than gamin, loves to poke fun in a husky voice at her manager and friends. And she doesn't worry about her appearance distracting; with her hair combed, and a smartly tailored suit, she is très chic. She is doggedly serious about learning English. She takes a lesson a day; instead of table hopping between her two shows at the Versailles, she studies her grammar book in her dressing room. The main reason: after her third visit to the U.S., she has decided "six months Paris, six months New York...
...days ago, the House un-American Activities Committee, which Martin Dies commanded in its hey-day from 1938 to 1944, announced that it was going to poke its nose into school and college textbooks. The Committee doesn't plan to learn anything useful from this excursion; it just wants to see if any Bolshevism lurks in these volumes...
...little jewel box), one looks down at night from the great 11th Century castle on the sparkling lights below which seem to stud a living, healthy city. But in the light of day, the city is a ruin, rendered only more monstrous by the neat little gingerbread houses which poke impertinently above the debris...