Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jugged-Celebrity-of-the-Week: lithe, blonde Cinemactress Frances Farmer, arrested for drunken driving. At the station house she demurely gave her age as 15. The officer made it 29 (correct). She told police: "You bore me." The bored police made no published retort...
...Holtz is consistently terrific with plenty of good hoofing, Lapidus jokes galore, and some fine ad libbing between the halves. The audience can retort if it dares enter in competition, but Holtz looks like a tough nut to crack. At times the actors mingle with the audience in a restrained sort of way and one lucky lady in a second story box has the pleasure of waltzing a few measures with Funnyman Willie Howard who, at the time, plays a drunk Scotsman to heckle Holtz from a new angle. Paradoxically, a large part of the show is devoted to classical...
...proposals brought a spate of angry letters to the Times. The gist: "There is surely enough for the church to do within its own accepted field." One defender of the Archbishop popped up with a retort from the late G. A. ("Woodbine Willie") Studdert-Kennedy, best-loved British padre of World War I: "Nobody worries about Christ so long as He can be kept shut up in churches . . . but there is always trouble...
Kilte registered surprise when a Holyoke maid said she was taking only Gov. "just Gov." You haven't a very difficult schedule, have you?" said the announcer- ess. "I didn't come here to have a very difficult schedule," was the retort...
...proposes not only to leave vacancies unfilled but for the first time to dismiss some 475 permanent appointees. The Mayor's point: enrollment in the city's schools has dropped nearly 150,000 in the last six years (because of the falling birth rate). The teachers' retort: in the city's schools there are still more than 10,000 unmanageably big classes (40 pupils or more...