Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A Runyon script spiced with Hope's gags plus a racehorse, a moppet, and Lucille Ball--that's "Sorrowful Jones." And it's good, too, because Hope is not just the joke machine of the "Road" pictures, but a completely developed character from one of Runyon's best stories. True...
And it is because of this wide-spread effect of the Roman Catholic strategy that it is ridiculous to suggest, as some have, that criticisms of that strategy ought to be banned as "trouble-making" or "intolerant." An attempt to control the lives and thoughts of every one of us...
British connoisseurs were appalled by the fakery (see cut). In a joint letter to the Times, Leigh Ashton, director of the Victoria' & Albert Museum, and other esthetes spluttered: "Reductio ad absurdum of the mania for the fake antique. These cars are ridiculous." Moaned the Manchester Guardian: "There are times...
If Manager Joe McCarthy of the Red Sox ever finds any pleasant dreams sandwiched in between his present nightmares, they must have a plot that runs along the lines of "It Happens Every Spring." As a chemistry professor who turns to pitching when he discovers a solution that repels wood...
Mae and their rotund, accommodating little friends made their debut in March. Sailors on H.M.S. Ganges formed a Shmoo club, English farmers reported that hens were laying Shmoo-shaped eggs, and subscribers sent Shmoo-shaped potatoes. But the postman also brought a mailbag of protests. Reader R.E. Wilkinson thought Shmoos...