Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Granted that the Tarzan movies do not resemble Edgar Rice Burroughs' intriguing books too closely, is It still fair to say that Tarzan and Jane are not married [TIME, July...
...story went on to say that the Ladancas never had enough money to buy Bruno trousers and shoes at the same time so that he could go to school, where he would at least get one good meal each day. "So he's growing up ignorant," Mrs. Ladanca said. "What's worse, he's hungry...
...before 600 lunching Los Angeles bigwigs one day last week rose Lever Bros. Co.'s plain-talking President Charles Luckman. He had something to say about the psychology of fear: the American people, he thought, were talking themselves into a depression...
...deed to a valuable piece of real estate from a notorious gangster (Thomas Gomez), and almost drive a songwriting neighbor (Hugh Marlowe) out of his mind before he capitulates. In their childlike faith, they brush aside every staggering obstacle in their path. When things look really tough, they say a prayer to St. Jude, patron of the impossible...
Latter-day Runyon creatures spoke a language of their own, a dialect which showed traces of remote English ancestry but which, despite its lack of formal grammar, was curiously courtly in its rhythms. When a Runyon character wanted to say that a tout had left money to his girl friend to buy him a tombstone, he said, "I am under the impression that he leaves Beatrice well loaded as far as the do-re-mi is concerned and I take it for granted that she handles the stone situation." In Runyonese there was only one tense, the universal present...