Word: silliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week in London it was hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk. Just to prove it, three girls tried the trick, using a city rooftop instead of the pavement. They did the job in 15 minutes while news photographers stood by to record the history-making scene. "Silliest picture of the year," snorted the Evening Standard, sweltering and irritable in the heat (92°) of the hottest June day on record. "Everyone knows it was hot today, but that's no excuse for wasting...
...between nine performances, or maybe it was twelve, of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, "I've Always Loved You" concerns itself with the silliest three people of recent screen history. If it had been played by the Marx Bros., the picture might have had a certain drollness. As it is, played in grim earnest by Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, and William Carter, it is slightly hideous...
...Barre . . . Monday. Flying is easier than driving a car. ... It costs less to run a Taylorcraft than to operate an automobile. . . . CAA records prove the safety ... 8 free hours flying instruction (enough to teach you to fly)." To airmen, who blow a gasket over such talk, this seemed the silliest ad of the month. It was not much worse than avia tion ads which have rosily pictured families flying off for weekends. But aviation buffs have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming light-plane in dustry is trying to sell planes, through department stores, to those...
This sort of comedy of the inhumanly vindictive antagonism by which a man and woman protract the ultimate inevitable plunge into each other's arms has, even at its silliest, some basis in truth. It is by no means new 1) to identify this skirmishing of the sexes with class warfare, 2) to resolve all class distinctions in the clinch. The one thing that gives this thousandth version any novelty is Alan Ladd's triple-chilled proficiency at handling all the tricks of making love in reverse gear. This is as interesting to look at, in a simpleminded...
...reasons given for the Republican victories in last Tuesday's election, that one of Vice President Wallace's is the silliest, and is about what would be expected of a politician of his caliber...