Word: fluttered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was one rift in the prevailing gloom. Martin Codel, editor of Television Digest, reported a flutter of optimism: "Every speculation for fall is good. The reports are too uniform to be mere pep talk. The depression feeling has been completely reversed. With the big football schedules coming up and all the possible World Series towns now linked by coaxial cable, television ought to get off to a big start by fall...
With prospective fortunes to liven interest (a gas-company worker once took a flutter for 10? and won $295,180), crowds at the games dwarf the crowds that turn out for U.S. sport events. When Scotland played (and beat) England two months ago, a throng of 150,000 crammed London's Wembley Stadium to see it done...
...staff as a $15-a-week afterthought. Today, earning more than $60,000 a year, she presides every morning at 9:15 over a highly paid and talented "coffee cabinet," which settles WNEW policy decisions without red tape and interoffice memos. "I love business," Tudie declares with a flutter of gestures and eyelids. "It's like a crossword puzzle. It's wonderful. And it pays so many rents." If tensions build up, she has a simple solution: "My throat swells. And I scream...
This time the four hoopskirted March girls are played by blonde June Allyson (Jo) in a red wig, brunette Elizabeth Taylor (Amy) in a blonde wig, Janet Leigh (Meg), and Margaret O'Brien (Beth). Though the faces have changed, the girlish flutter and flummery are still the same. Curled up in her cluttered Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching...
Divorced. Hugh ("Woo-Woo") Herbert, 60, flutter-fingered cinema comic; by Rose Herbert, 56, onetime vaudeville actress; after 28 years of marriage, no children; in Fort Worth...