Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yeah," piped up a bobbysoxer, "they'll break the door down." Her remark produced a burst of laughter...
...consumer. Charged Dodd: "This case highlights the lack of concern by this Administration for the consumer and the small person." Nothing in Donegan's Justice Department work, said Senator Dodd, indicates that he will make a better commissioner than Connole. Dodd pointed to Donegan's own remark: "I've never had anything to do with utilities outside of paying my gas bill." The White House hostility to Connole, a political independent, was said to be partly founded on anti-Administration cracks he had made at Washington cocktail parties. He was also disliked by his fellow FPC commissioners...
Republicans got in a few volleys, too. Said Illinois' Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, when asked to comment on Lyndon Johnson's "panic" remark: "I am so far from panicky that it's not even funny. Never was I more complacent. Never was I more confident - strike out that word 'complacent.' " House Minority Leader Charles A. Halleck denounced the House's $251 million depressed-areas bill as "political payola," and its housing bill as "a billion dollars' worth of baloneyola." Neither bill "can become law," said Halleck, "because...
...duel, as the righteous judge rejects the wife he thinks was raped and she takes poison, rejecting life itself, Giraudoux's artificial story remains scrupulously behind glass. But gusts of realistic rain or melodramatic sleet from time to time beat against it. Giraudoux cleverly lets his characters remark how tragedy is jostling farce, or drama is encroaching on comedy. But the play, as it plunges over rapids in which both men and women are hurt, and virtue and vice are drowned, is kept between banks by an ironic tone and wit. By the end, the champagne seems more like...
...reason so many people showed up at his funeral was because they wanted to be sure he was dead." Thus, the legend goes, did Movie Magnate Sam Goldwyn dispose of his longtime colleague and competitor, Louis B. Mayer. By quoting the remark near the start of his new biography, Hollywood Rajah (Holt; $5.50), New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther makes plain that he feels no kindlier toward the onetime junk dealer who became one of Hollywood's gaudiest tycoons, created stars from Garbo to Rooney, wrote his name on some of the best and worst pictures...