Word: bugging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Radio). Caroline (Anna Lee) does not possess the studied virtuosity of the S. J. Perelman heroine who left the room in high dudgeon and returned in low dudgeon, just to show her versatility. But she is an exasperatingly contradictory female. Life confounds her. Attention is her dish. Her water-bug mind, attractively camouflaged by a pert, pretty face and curly, blonde topknot, tends to forget people when they aren't around...
...South American bug wears a masklike hollow structure on its head which makes it look like a distant alligator. "The resemblance extends to a number of independent details, including the nasal prominence in front, a large false eye behind, bearing a white mark which simulates light reflected from a real eye, and false teeth which are present not merely in color but in relief...
...dark, wiry, bug-eyed Larry Adler, son of a Baltimore plumber, won a harmonica contest sponsored by the Baltimore Sun. He shrewdly sized up the judges as serious musicians, played a Beethoven minuet instead of the popular tunes submitted by other contestants. Mouth Organist Adler went to Manhattan, at 16 played a bit in Flo Ziegfeld's Smiles, became a protégé of Eddie Cantor, whom he slightly resembled. In his early stage turns, Larry Adler wore ragamuffin garb, a conventional uniform for harmonicists. But after C. B. Cochran took him to London in 1934 nothing less...
...just ain't got no privacy," moaned one rare Crustacea to its neighbor as a splintering crash was heard over head. Safe from predatory human bug-hunters and naturalists since its incarceration in a glass case at Peabody 50 years ago these animals today again had attackers...
Arrested by U.S. authorities on a technical charge of illegal entry, Werra was sent to New York City, placed in the custody of the German consul on bond. He stayed in New York about a month, touring nightclubs, telling tall tales to bug-eyed and sympathetic ladies from the German settlement in Yorkville...