Word: across
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rarely have such a collection of wits gotten together at one time to give "Patience." Their singing, their acting, and even their facial expressions put it across in a manner that had the audience rearing with laughter all night...
...senator argued that the only alternative to strong armament lies in getting across the truth about United States intentions to the Russian people...
...means of getting in touch with people on the other side of the barrier," he declared. "They have the idea that it will be construed as an invasion of sovereignty by the Russian government. Through some queer quirk of diplomatic reasoning, it is no invasion to shoot our words across on electromagnetic waves in the other, but it is not quite cricket to send printed material across. That's a little too unconventional. In some way it is rather raw. It is not in accordance with the niceties of diplomatic practice...
ANGUS WARD ALIVE - OR ELSE! W35 the head on La Moore's opening editorial, boxed across the top of the New York World-Telegram's editorial page, and echoed by the other 18 Scripps-Howard newspapers (total circ...
...joke, which was originally made in the French Chamber of Deputies decades ago and which eventually found its way into the anecdote section of the "Readers Digest," is typical of those in the movie. Almost all of the laughs arrive by way of deep left field and are put across with the heavy hand of amateur gag men. This is unfortunate because four of the participants are capable of real humor. Besides the traditional Hepburn-Tracy team, the movie present Judy Holliday of "Born Yesterday" fame and Tom Ewell, who played Ensign Pulver in "Mr. Roberts...