Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Remarkable Andrew" is far from trite, but equally dull. Its rather weird plot concerns the plight of Andrew Long, a strait-laced city employee who is framed by crooked politicians. With the unseen help of the ghost of his namesake Andy Jackson (not to mention the spirits of Washington, Marshall, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.) Andrew Long finally manages to extricate himself. But for a while in the picture even his friends wonder a bit when they observe him talking to people they can't see. Meanwhile the audience is just as baffled by the superfluity of ghosts whose figures they...
...sensational advance in industrial technique was revealed last week and immediately opened the way for major advances in the aviation industry. The new technique: arc-welding of magnesium. Result: the further development of the so-called flying wing-a weird, batlike plane with no tail, no fuselage and an extraordinary efficiency (TIME, Oct. 27). Some other results...
Sometimes sophomoric, sometimes savage, Morgan's programs are a mixture of monologue and weird recorded music. A favorite of Robert Benchley, James Thurber, Stuart Chase, Morgan follows a simple formula. He breaks all the rules. As a result he is the envy of every announcer who ever gagged politely while rolling off an unctuous commercial. Once when reading a plug for Adler Elevator Shoes "Knockabouts come in ten colors . . . beige, cinnamon, blue . . ."), Morgan ad-libbed remarks on the probable habits of a man who would wear blue shoes, remarked "I wouldn't be seen in them...
...also a hangout for Nazi spies, a place where sailors were lured by drink to tell military secrets. Senator Barkley did not then or later give out the FBI 25-page report. He said it was too "disgusting and unprintable." He contented himself with declaring flatly that the whole "weird and fantastic story" was a case of mistaken identity: the man called Senator Walsh by the Post was really a different visitor altogether, portly like the Senator, about his age, but otherwise resembling him no more "than I look like Haile Selassie...
They are ghosts indeed, weird and touching ones. They have walked the earth ever since Waugh's famed Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, symbols of a hypercivilized, degenerate England. Put Out More Flags -perhaps their last appearance-is Waugh's peculiar genius at its best. In 300 swift, compact pages he constructs not only the funniest but also the most cruelly searching image to date of England in her latest fateful moment of history...