Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal with adult problems, "and we don't get chichi or phony about them." In TV, he has tackled such subjects as adultery and Lesbianism, both frowned upon in radio and movies, without causing any scandalized uproar. "We deflect tension," Miner explains. "We don't say people are going to bed together, we just have them...
...doing more damage "to the free-enterprise system than all the crackpots have ever done." To get an explanation, O'Mahoney asked Ben Fairless to appear before a congressional committee right after New Year's. Fairless, who in the past has often had as little to say as Garbo, promptly said that he would "welcome the opportunity" to explain the rise in steel prices...
...another boost in coal prices was in prospect. But scrap, which is a major cost in making steel, was selling at an average of only $27.25 a ton, compared with $43 a year ago. As for the new pension program-U.S. Steel officials could not, or would not, say what it would cost the company in the first year (guesses by outsiders ran as high as $80 million a year...
That was about all Louella's story had to say. The news, she said, came "straight from Rome," the latest scene of Ingrid's celebrated romantic entanglement with 43-year-old Italian Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, for whom she had renounced her husband and her career...
Manners for White Women. Finally, on Pavuvu, part of the division was marked for rotation. Hints on good manners were printed (anonymously) for those going home after two years in the South Seas: "Say 'Please pass the butter.' You DO NOT say, 'Throw down the grease ...' If, while dining at a friend's house you wish more dessert, merely stare at your empty plate until someone catches on. DO NOT say, 'How about seconds on the slop?' " Author McMillan refrains from printing "Personal Manners" instructions on addressing live young white women...