Word: sackful
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There are long lines these days at the Sack Cheri theater, for the new English comedy The Wrong Box. Hordes are plunking down their two dollars gleefully for what has come to be known as "the new Peter Sellers movie." Except, of course, that it isn't. The Sellers name is advertised loudly enough, and Sellers is in the movie, but his appearance is limited to a quick six minutes...
...nobody wanted it. "I even tried the Prime Minister and the lord mayor," said Gray. Finally a few members of the Dublin City Council agreed to meet Gray in a perfunctory little ceremony in O'Connell Street, where they accepted the head and dragged it away in a sack to storage...
...really rich man, he is not about to send his faithful retainer off into manufacturing. Oil Millionaire Nubar Gulbenkian, who will be paying S.E.T. for his three grooms, three gardeners, two secretaries, butler and valet, says, "What, sack the poor devils? Good heavens, no. I'll just have...
...plot is another sack of potatoes, however. The heroine (Sarah Miles) is a Hibernian Orphan Annie who in rapid succession sees the young man she loves run away to sea, gets pregnant by a beastly Britisher, suffers a miscarriage in a London gutter, hurries home to find the young man she loves engaged to another girl, winds up on Christmas morning bravely smiling through tears. Her tears fall in such torrents, in fact, that viewers may wonder why the camera was not equipped with windshield wipers. They may also wonder how Director Desmond Davis and Novelist-Scriptwriter O'Brien...
...surprised, however, to hear Kilty make one error in the celebrated pacan to sherris-sack. He pronounced the word forgetive with a hard g and the accent on the second syllable, as though it meant "forgetful;" a cognate of forge, it means "inventive" and should of course have a soft g and first-syllable accent...