Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cornel Wilde is a fine young man, ambitious, though a little wild; while the minor characters could be transferred to another such movie as easily as a Ford part can be replaced. At best, they bustle through the plot using the lowest common denominator of human action, and at worst they are a bunch of Martians imitating home sapiens, having seen them once, from a lunar distance. So when the technicolor and Maureen O'Hara have cased to dazzle his eyes, the movie-geer will start to fidget in his upholstered chair, and hope that this one will turn...
...from adequate fare for those who are scarching for the "deeper implication of things." His work to date is only a very funny burlesque of the Senate War Investigating Committee, whose activities saved the Government-billions of dollars and put Harry Truman in the political limelight. So far the worst that can be said of Hughes is that he used on a grand scale the same tactics that any small business man adopts when he invites a potential buyer home for dinner in the hope that the good cooking and flattery of the "little woman" will turn the trick. Hughes...
Delirium tremens usually lasts three to six days, and sometimes ends in death. This was one of the worst cases the doctor had ever seen. When the patient, a 37-year-old bartender, was carried into the doctor's office, imaginary rats were gnawing his feet, wild-eyed cats scrambling over his body, flames licking at his stretcher. The man was screaming and jumping with terror...
...This was an unusual device. Usually his secretary writes to him and in this way is able to congratulate him on remarkable feats of exclusive journalism and prophecy and thank him for kindnesses to others which he might not have the indelicacy to mention, although modesty is not his worst fault...
...willing to go to the gutter to find a hero." To prove it, Peg unwrapped a 1929 Sullivan column eulogizing Frank Marlow, a murdered Manhattan mobster ("Goodbye, Frank, and God bless you."). Pegler's verdict on Sullivan: "A prideful intimacy with many of the worst gangsters ... a professional name-dropper, a grown-up but still callow Saturday night sport...