Word: cornier
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...there appears what might be the George Washington Bridge flapping in the wind. Thurber is never bitter about his blindness, nor self-pitying, nor "saintly." Often he discusses it in a completely detached manner; now & then he uses it for little jokes. "I bet I can think up a cornier title for my memoirs than you can," he challenged a friend. "How about Long Time...
Well before last week's game, Chappuis had been primed on pro football by the Dodgers' Left Halfback Hunchy Hoernschemeyer and veteran Fullback Mickey Cornier. Said Mickey, who is 29 and balding: "There's spirit in pro football, but it's cold spirit. You produce, or you don't get your pay." At Ebbets Field, under the arc lights, the band played Michigan as the 900-man Michigan Club of New York gave Bob Chappuis a scroll wishing him "the best of luck." But Chappuis, the top Dodger name, saw little action: he had missed...
...humor in Polonaise, is even cornier than the hurlyburly. Far & away the best thing in the show is Chopin's indestructibly melodious music. Even so, the nocturnes, waltzes and mazurkas are vulgarized into schmalzy songs. If the Poles knew what was being done to Chopin, they might well start another uprising...
...audience, politely embarrassed, sat quietly for some time, the critics exchanging incredulous stares as the picture grew steadily cornier. Finally the audience broke down utterly, laughing at serious scenes, groaning at funny ones. And they guffawed when Rio, intent on nursing wounded Billy, gets undressed, with the announced intention of getting into bed with him to warm him because there are not enough blankets...
...year after he wrote this lyric, William Guggenheim, 72, maverick brother of the copper tycoons, wrote a last will & testament that was even cornier. The will left nothing to his wife and child, split his $1,000,000 estate (Broadway's estimate) equally among four women-all his "protegees" at the time of his death last June. The protégées: Lillyan Andrus (Miss America of '29), Mildred Borst (Miss Connecticut of '30), Marialyce Rice, a Texas-born Ziegfeld beauty. The fourth beneficiary: his secretary, Florence Sullivan...