Word: worded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...John Huston allows your correspondent to write: "Many of Traven's suggestions for the movie treatment were so intelligent and knowledgeable (a terrible word) that Huston was fascinated, and wanted to meet him.". . . How, then, is it that Mr. John Huston can say that he "was pretty certain" that I was Traven, when at one instant he says that Traven's suggestions fascinated him and with the same breath he declares "Groves made no worthwhile suggestions." Who is who now, and what is what...
...ARTICLE "WALT & WELT" [TIME, MARCH I] BE A LESSON TO THE BUILDING INDUSTRY TO CUT THE WORD "GRAPH" FROM THEIR DICTIONARIES. AMAZING HOW SUCH AN INNOCUOUS LITTLE WORD GOING INTO THE EAR OF A TIME CORRESPONDENT CAN COME OUT in THE HORRIBLE FORM OF "GRAFT." JUST FOR THE RECORD, IT IS OUR BUSINESS GRAPH LINE WHICH HAS BEEN RISING NOT OUR GRAFT...
...official army paper Red Star felt obliged to issue a warning. "Soviet generals," it announced, "who fail to pursue such studies will lose out in assignments to responsible military posts." In Britain, where the Lords this time were debating Communist aggression in Western Europe, Lord Pakenham had a word of enlightenment about that as well...
...shillings and two gallons of beer that he couldn't grow a beard and keep it on till Easter. Alf figured the bet was a cinch, because he had grown a beard last summer and none of his bosses had said a word. This time, however, Brewery Manager Jack Redmund (who had been Alf's officer in the territorials during the war) issued an ultimatum: "Shave it off or work inside." A brewery executive explained: "We didn't feel that the growth of the beard upheld the prestige of our delivery to our customers...
Critics found the music (by Remi Gassman) weak and stumbling, but Billy was the brightest thing the dilapidated Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo has done this season. Three Manhattan churchmen also had a word to say about it: they found Billy Sunday sinful. To 38-year-old Choreographer Page, who once toured with Pavlova, the charge was nothing new: her lusty Frankie and Johnny had to be tidied up by New York censors, is still banned in Boston. Says she: "The Bible is filled with sex, especially the Old Testament. And anyway, you can't be very sexy...