Word: scarum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican morning Herald, the least harum-scarum typographically, carries the most foreign, i.e., out of Boston, news. Its sprightly editorial-page column by Rudolph Elie, also the Herald's able music critic, is probably the brightest newspaper writing done in the city; its editorials last year by John Crider, editorial page editor, were good enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for general excellence. The Herald's biggest circulation asset is Sportwriter Bill Cunningham, whose orotund mastery of the cliche is often a frontpage delight to readers. Wrote Cunningham from the Florida training camps last week: "Theodore Samuel Williams...
...demonstrates that Clark Gable still cuts a manly figure in his underwear, still generates the tough, swaggering charm that made him a durable favorite of U.S. women moviegoers. To get Gable's clothes off and otherwise display his talents, M-G-M has slapped together a harum-scarum comedy that tries anything for a laugh, and sometimes succeeds. But the effort is more conspicuous than...