Word: titters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany). And Cinema Writer Alfred Wright Jr. is still another TIME man who holds the D.F.C. and the Air Medal (plus the Presidential Unit Citation) for "outstanding airmanship, heroic conduct, loyal devotion to duty." (In the Solomons Lieut. Wright bombed and strafed 25 Japanese vessels "with cool courage and titter disregard for his own safety in the face of tremendous anti-aircraft fire...
Said Mr. Roosevelt: "Hi there, Bill! Are you going to run against me for President this year?" There was a breathless pause, then a titter of laughter. Mr. Roosevelt's face turned red. Then he added swiftly: " -that is, if I am a candidate." Replied Congressman Lemke, smiling: "Maybe it would be better if we both didn't run." Newspaper speculation, spurred by the Lemke incident, began to assume more & more that Mr. Roosevelt will broadcast his July acceptance of the Democratic nomination in the most glamorous manner possible - that he will take full politi cal advantage...
Authoress Strauss specializes in the cultivated titter, the swift verbal snickersnee...
They don't fit. They are unbecoming. They poke our escorts in the chin or eyes, depending on their, or our, height. They tilt and titter ; you have to be super to carry them off - or be carried...
...Aryan professor who gets in the way of marching events in 1933 is played with back-bending restraint by Frank Morgan, who once more reveals that his bag of tricks includes far more than his usual movie titter. The swastika soon crosses the romance between daughter Freya (Margaret Sullavan), and her boy friend Fritz (Robert Young). Fritz's transformation from a windy but amiable young donkey into an expert instrument of hatred remains awesome even in a world where it has happened so often. Gradually father, mother, sons, see their world wavering around them, its old, familiar outlines dissolving...