Word: pshawing
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Saint Joan (Preminger; United Artists) performs, with the greatest of ease, the feat of turning Shaw into pshaw. Given what is probably the master's masterpiece, Producer-Director Otto Preminger (The Man with the Golden Arm) has concluded what is certainly the feeblest of the five films-Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion are the others-that have been made from Shaw's plays...
...intense interest. Earl Warren, his bulk (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) dominating the bench, sat erect in the high-back chair that had been used by the late Chief Justice Vinson (Said Warren to a court official who asked him if he wanted his own specially built chair: "Pshaw, that one's plenty good enough for me!"). Occasionally he asked a quiet question to clarify a point. Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, as if playing pizzicato violin to Warren's cello, turned and twisted in his specially built chair, fired quick, needling questions at the attorneys, sent messengers...
...items 2 and 3, and fumbled distractedly with old dentist's and gasoline bills, he sometimes stopped to stare for long intervals at the ceiling-as if he expected to see a little loudspeaker push through the plaster and hear President Truman's voice saying softly: "Oh, pshaw, Jim, we've decided to call the tax off this year...
...Pshaw, said 80-year-old Quincy Adams Shaw: "We knew that all along. My father was no expert, but he always did have a good eye for paintings...
...nation's most popular native painter is still Frederick Judd Waugh (rhymes with pshaw). His turbulent surfscapes won the Carnegie International's popularity prize five years in a row (1934-38), and since his death in 1940 they have gone right on pleasing the public. For the past five years his March-North Atlantic has been touring the country in the Encyclopaedia Britannica's traveling collection of U.S. art. In 26 cities, Britannica announced last week, the public had voted Waugh's picture the best of the 124 in the collection...