Word: gizzards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grounded wires. In spite of Jack Warner's promise that nothing important would be cut, the strongest and thematically most necessary speeches in the play were lopped out after Huston had finished and left town. "Why, goddamit," Huston shouted when he learned of it, "they cut the very gizzard out of it!" Key Largo is Huston's last picture for Warner Bros...
...heart belongs to the Giants (who last won a pennant in 1937). "When they win I want to do cartwheels on top of their dugout," said she, "and don't think I can't. When they lose, my vichyssoise is curdled, to say nothing of my gizzard. Last season I lived on curdled vichyssoise...
...Vichyfrance (see p. 15) concerned the kind of man that Vichyfrance loathes and abhors: big, genial 69-year-old Edouard Herriot, three-time Premier of France, a generous, cultured, democratic gentleman. Recently secluded somewhere in Vichyfrance, he has not let Vichyfascism shut him up. He had the gizzard to contribute to the September American Mercury a nostalgic article extolling the French democratic tradition. Wrote he: "Among the memories which fill my journal, the most precious to me in these tragic days we are living through are the ones which bring back the beginnings of my cordial relations with two nations...
...every day, to be "cooked" in the retorts there on the steep shank of the mountain. A week or so ago "Hap" brought out one rock that was might' nigh pure cinnabar. It weighed 130 Ib. He brought it through seven miles of tunnel from the very gizzard of the ancient mine...