Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bounced about like tiny rubber balls"; his way of coming into a room, carrying his silk hat, stick and gloves; his reputation as both a wit and a bore ("Nobody bored him," said Violet Hunt, "he took care of that. . ."); his reputation for incomprehensibility ("Poor old James," said George Meredith, "he sets down on paper these mysterious rumblings in his bowels -but who could be expected to understand them?"); his reputation for social snobbery, and his reputation for knowing women only by observation and fancy-such were the handicaps he struggled against...
...Sweet Song. The golden egg hatched by sage Mother Goudge is different and much more endearing. Here, the lecherous and predatory decadence of the New World is forgotten in the leafy byways of the Old Country; here, quotations are culled only from the sunny hedgerows of George Meredith, Shakespeare, The Wind in the Willows. World War II-the one which was caused by all the irresponsible behavior described by ardent Father Haydn-is over at last, and Britons are exhausted...
...Miracle Can Happen (United Artists). Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Victor Moore, Harry James, and a distinguished supporting cast. Roving Reporter Meredith asks people what, if anything, a little child has done for their careers; they tell him, in flashbacks. It's all intended to be funny-and some...
...yard run--Won by Stoltman, (Y); second, Gurley, (H); third, Meredith, (Y). Time...
...Closest thing to producing life in a test tube was recently achieved by Nobel Prize Winner Wendell Meredith Stanley, who reported...