Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Dannie Heineman shook his head in amazement at what he called Franco's "stupidity" in letting Old Smuggler March go so far. Said Heineman: "This will not only cost Franco all the confidence and all the credits he hoped to get, it will scare all U.S. capital from investment anywhere in Europe...
...South African government, which was preparing to try Milne on a charge of fraud after one of his companies was thrown into receivership, began investigating. Last week, after three months of digging into the affair, it explained why there had been such a difference in the samples. Said the government: "The gold content of each of three ore samples . . . had been fraudulently increased ... or . . . 'salted...
...appears to me," said Don Quixote, "that translating from one language into another . . . is like gazing at a Flemish tapestry with the wrong side out: even though the figures are visible, they are full of threads that obscure the view and are not bright and smooth as when seen from the other side...
...Renaming himself Don Quixote, and his jag-jointed nag Rocinante (translation: formerly a hack), the madman enlists a local farmer, one Sancho Panza, as his squire. Breathing the name of his ladylove, Dulcinea del Toboso (in real life a husky farm girl named Aldonza Lorenzo that he has never said two words to), Don Quixote sets out in quest of adventures...
...There were some better-than-usual jokes (Berle poking his head between the curtains to ask drowsily: "Porter-what station is this?"), and plenty of corny ones (the first stooge to come onstage spit water in Berle's eye). But, as usual, whatever Comic Berle said or did reduced the studio audience to helpless shrieks of laughter. Even Berle's spectacular records of last year were in danger. Sindlinger researchers made the popeyed announcement that of all Philadelphia's TV sets, 80% were tuned to Berle and only 3.6% to other shows...