Word: saltier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, the Massachusetts state board of censors met Will Shakespeare at the pier. They hacked such words as b-wdyh~s-and wh-r-from the cinema version of his Henry V, missed some saltier though subtler sallies. But the cuts were only for Sundays and children's matinees. Week nights, Bostonians could hear the worst...
...dish in most respects, Diary ought to have turned out much saltier and spicier than it is. As the picture stands, it has its lights and moments, especially those in which Co-Producer Burgess Meredith, playing the part of a crazy old soldier, hops & skips around chewing flowers and ogling Paulette (Mrs. Meredith). But most of the comedy dissipates into cloudy, dimly political Gallic melodrama, and the raffish promise of the title is never redeemed...
...little Saltier in their speech, a little quicker in their formations, and a little more at home in their whites, there are some V-men who can be spotted easily in their new Kirkland-E' lot House surroundings...
Knuckle-Swinger Up. Last week the Navy fixed responsibility. Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley was relieved of his command of the entire operation. In his place, as Commander of the South Pacific, Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. went to work. Admiral Halsey, who looks saltier than sodium chloride, is known throughout the Navy as a tough, aggressive, restless man. He led the brilliant attack on the Marshall Islands in January, commanded other hit-&-run raids...