Word: print
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Commons last week, Labor M.P. Benn Levy asked if the Parliament dining-room menus could henceforth be printed in English instead of French. Promptly, Mrs. Ayrton-Gould gave Levy a quick lesson in French and economy. Said she: "May I point out to the Honorable Member . . . that hors d'oeuvres is described as 'an appetizing savoury of vegetables, fish, etc., served before the first course'. . . . It would not be easy to print this shortly and concisely on the menu...
...Writes His Stuff? From the day Billy's column hit print, many a reader has imagined that he smelled something that was not quite the Rose. The blunt, inevitable question has been: Who writes his stuff for him? Billy swears that he does it himself, "and it takes me from four to six hours a day." Actually, there is little room for doubt that Billy writes the prose that bears his byline. The column talks like Billy, it mawks like Billy, it has all of Billy's change-rattling eloquence and off-the-arm skill with...
...This old saw (about the man who got caught wisecracking with his mike open)-which TIME labeled a legend and said that Uncle Don had called a canard-popped up in print at least as long ago as December 1933. It first appeared in TIME Oct. 9, 1939 as a "persistent but apocryphal tale," and there's not a word of truth to the story...
Clara Bow, Billie Dove and Vilma Banky took bows in Hollywood when Body-Builder Terry Hunt complained in print: "It's not a pleasant word, but most . . . actresses . . . are too skinny." Clara and Billie and Vilma, recalled Hunt wistfully, "had well-filled faces with character. You could tell them apart...
...clock that night Little Happiness emerged, issued a statement to the press: "I'll broadcast more than ever. I'm preparing my will, and I hope the newspapers will print it if I'm beaten to death...