Word: utterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven months on TV, Mrs. Lucas has never burned a cookie or fluffed a line, although she was "frightfully nervous when we did apple pie." CBS has imposed just two restrictions: no emphasis on brandy, rum or cooking wine, and no live food. Mrs. Lucas regards both taboos as utter nonsense: "Why, when we had lobster thermidor, I had to kill the lobsters before the program, and that's most unhealthy, you know." Next week, in the new last-word television studios CBS is opening in Manhattan, Mrs. Lucas will move into a last-word, specially built kitchen...
...Bradberry found a U.S. mail pouch containing $239,000 in currency lying beside the Atlanta & West Point Railroad tracks. He turned it over to postal authorities, who grabbed the sack, subjected him to gimlet-eyed questioning, finally told him he was free to leave-but did not utter one word of thanks...
...snazzy parking area under the Common, and more than ever it seems as though the College is on the wrong side of the Charles. Here, the battle for car space is fierce and unrelenting. Local policemen are tossing off tickets to violators faster than candidates for the Republican nomination utter cliches. But across the river, in what is swiftly becoming paradise on earth, Model Ts will nestle side by side with Cadillacs, in ample space and perfect safety...
...thousand years ago, when Western civilization was bounded by the laws and legions of the Roman Empire, the proudest words a man could utter were: "I am a citizen of Rome." A century ago, when the world was girdled by the British Empire, the Englishman's voice sounded from the earth's far corners: "I am a British subject." Now, in the middle of the 20th Century, the most arresting tones of history said something else: "I am an American...
...This film," said the Observer, "has all the morals of an alley cat and the sweetness of a sewer." Said the Sunday Pictorial: "A piece of nauseating muck." Wrote Steven Watts in the Sunday Express: "The worst film I have ever seen." From the august Manchester Guardian came utter damnation: "Thoroughly un-British...