Word: unkindnesses
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...native Kentuckian . . . I was puzzled with "Hot as hackydam" and " 'whittledycut' -which in Kentucky means a real fine horse race." Would it be unkind to suggest that such expressions may have been used by infiltrators of the Pennyroyal . . . or that your correspondent had been investigating that special flavor the limestone imparts to the bourbon...
Since then the South has become a land of promise. States are spending taxpayers' money to attract Northern capital. The welcome mat is out and the hand of friendship extended-but not by Senator Johnston." Then the paper took unkind notice of Johnston's New and Fair Deal tendencies and his loud support of Adlai Stevenson. Said the editorial: "There was another term of abuse in Reconstruction. It was 'scalawag,' meaning a Southerner who played along with Washington policies then oppressing the South." -Still, Olin Johnston had his way in the end. In Geneva, still unconfirmed...
...film leans over backward to avoid any suggestion of spectacle, and there are no panoramic shots of Rome, no overblown crowd scenes, no technicolor sunsets to draw attention from beauty of language and intensity of feeling. Although the scenario discards some minor scenes, few of the cuts are unkind, and the film happily needs credit no-one with "additional dialogue." There is no pretentious introduction to ease the audience into Shakespeare, and with Brando excellent as Antony, there is no desperate bid for box-office appeal in the casting. Essentially, what producer John Houseman and director Joseph Mankiewicz have done...
...Tattooed Sailor, on the other hand, is vintage humor. It is a hilarious one-man cartoon show by Rumanian-born André François who sounds an unmistakably original note in the cacophony of cartoon comedy. Cartoonist François humor is pointed, whimsical, completely loufoque and never unkind. His sailor hero has been tattooed into a state of ineffable euphoria, making him inseparable from his lovely Lilly and probably inadmissible to the U.S., but only on moral grounds...
...Petersen: "I didn't care much one way or another." Orr, who reckoned that he had paced off 40,000 miles in twelve years, had worn out two signs and two dozen pairs of shoes. Said he: "Everybody was always nice to me. Mr. Petersen never said an unkind word to me all the time I was there." In return, Orr had helped out Petersen by walking his Scottish terrier...