Word: herding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...cowboy never knew when the herd would tromp him down...
Wearing a mannish hairdo, Joan Crawford plays the overneat Harriet Craig with sexy emphasis. As her thoroughly housebroken husband, Wendell Corey is careful never to drop ashes on the rugs, sit on the arm of the sofa, or put a damp glass on an end table. Besides riding herd on Corey, Joan bullies her servants, snipes at the inoffensive widow next door, tries to break up K.T. Stevens' romance with William Bishop. Her ineffectual villain'es come to a head when, to prevent her husband's going alone to Japan on business, she defames...
...Bulging Waistline." The other thing to understand about U.S. politics, says Author Allen, is political loyalty, which is "a special kind of virtue ... In a field of activity where the outs are forever on the hunt for some way of getting in; the ins must herd together for mutual protection, rumps together and horns presented to the would-be intruders...
...military leader." If the Republican Party had gotten Ike, George avows, it "would have had a candidate worthy of its Abraham Lincoln tradition." Would George have voted for him? Not on your life. George Allen is first and last a party man. Politics are politics. At all costs, the herd must be saved: rumps together, horns...
...features a quiz master named Wilfred Pickles who resembles a more genial Groucho Marx; on such comedy shows as Educating Archie, Ray's a Laugh and Take It from Here, the labored pun flourishes even more richly than in the U.S. (sample: "What are we hunting for?" "Herd of deer, my lord." " 'Course I've heard of deer-big things like horses with a hatrack on their foreheads...