Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced that she had "faith in the American people," and was getting thousands of letters of commendation from them. But Lucy didn't appear to have forgiven Columnist Winchell. She was asked how she thought he had discovered her secret. "Walter Winchell," she replied acidly, "knew I was pregnant before I did myself...
Last week, in a masterful bit of fence-straddling, the Corporation reinstated her, but announced that she would not be reappointed when her present term expires next June. Cried the Boston Herald: "A ponderous pussyfooting . . . You can no more be partially loyal than you can be partially pregnant...
...where are the curly-fused cannon crackers of yesteryear-so thick, so roundly red, so pregnant with earsplitting, tooth-jarring noise? Where are the backyard skyrockets, with their colored, cone-topped heads and their delicate pinewood sticks? Where are the politicians who spoke, jowls aquiver and veins distended, on the glorious day amid the pleasantly acrid smell of burnt powder? Where are the red, white and blue floats built on flat bed-trucks? Where is the George M. Cohan roll for the player piano and the rock salt for the ice-cream freezer on the back porch...
...wife, who had, he said, wakened him one night in a convulsive fit. He strangled her with a stocking. Victim No. 5 was Kathleen Maloney who, he said sadly, demanded money for his attentions to her; No. 6 was Rita Nelson, who was six months pregnant; No. 7 was Hectorina MacLennan, a young Scottish mother...
...Moon Is Blue (Preminger-Herbert; United Artists) brings the 1951 Broadway comedy hit about sex and virtue to the screen as a pleasant, entertaining movie that is notable chiefly for the way it frankly uses, for the first time on the screen, such words as "pregnant," "seduction," "virgin" and "mistress...