Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hyde Park. It was Cardinal Spellman on the line. Two weeks before, angry at Mrs. Roosevelt's opposition to federal aid to parochial schools, he had accused her of "discrimination unworthy of an American mother," and announced flatly that no matter what Mrs. Roosevelt had further to say, "I shall not again publicly acknowledge...
Some people might say that the downfall of Fusao Negishi was due to unsettled postwar conditions, or to his own greed. But Negishi himself would probably maintain that it was due to his wife's petulant desire for a vacation in the country...
...them. Spotting a likely cloud, he hopped into his Lockheed Lodestar, let go with a single Dry Ice pellet fired from a Very pistol. Within three hours, an inch and a half of rain had turned San Pedro's dusty streets into bogs. Bragged Texan Silverthorne: "Say the word and I'll flood the country...
...regular trips to Mexico City, Roulette Goddord swapped sweet nothings at Los Angeles Airport with a new leading man, Clark Gable. Purred Paulette: "Goodbye, sugar." Cooed Clark: "Goodbye, honey." For newsmen taking down the dialogue, Gable had another line with the old familiar ring: "Just say we're a couple of longtime friends...
...doing a new version of Gounod's Faust, she had Hitler in mind: "I wanted to show how Hitler, too, was a Mephistopheles, pulling wires and moving people around just as such men have through history ... I thought the Faust story would be a powerful way to say...