Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program because parts of it "might be misconstrued." Had Author West (Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It) said or done anything naughty before the cameras? "Certain minds always misconstrue everything," said the past mistress of double-meaning ribaldry. "I have a very big public that understands what I say." Exactly what happened when CBS Interviewer Charles Collingwood came up and saw Mae in her Hollywood apartment? One of the droller exchanges came when he commented on all the mirrors in Mae's plushy bedroom. "They're for personal observation," said Mae, deadpan. "I always like to know...
...kept telling them I was building." shrugs Clark, winner of a battlefield commission in Europe during World War II and captain of U.S.C.'s 1947 team. "What else could I say?" Clark was true to his word. He went as far away as the famed muscle factories of Pennsylvania to land Tackle Dan Ficca (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.). But Clark's prize finds were waiting at Mount Carmel High School, right in Southern Cal's own home town of Los Angeles. As high-school All-Americas, Mike and Marlin McKeever got offers from some...
...were writing the rules, the mari who found the answer was a citizen of superior intellect. Whatever he collected for the job, he actually worked for intellectual satisfaction. It was not until 1929 that a slim, sardonic operator named Samuel Dashiell Hammett published Red Harvest and gave murder-to say nothing of lesser crimes-back to the people who are ordinarily involved...
...many letters (each personally answered) poured in to Ireland's Whiskey Distillers that Gossage claims to have "established an important new industry in Ireland-writing letters to America." Says he: "If you write in and say you don't drink Irish, we may send your name to a man who does. It will be like the buddy system, like boy scouts helping each other to swim." Irish whiskey sales in the U.S.? Up 60% in the first nine months of this year, to 30,000 cases...
...opening words of this book-"How can you stand it?"-bear witness to Author McCarthy's candor. She itemizes the disadvantages in which Florence is rich: the noise, the occasional rudeness, the oppressive summer heat, the lack of nighttime pleasures, the daytime drabness. It is true, she says, that because of the frightening traffic, "Many of the famous monuments have become, quite literally, invisible, for lack of a spot from which they can be viewed with safety." And it is maddeningly true that "As for the museums, they are the worst-organized, the worst-hung in Italy-a scandal...