Word: wringing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...expedition to Cambodia which is looking for a jade eye. There are a couple of men in the expedition and they are being chased by various women, some of whom are native to the country and most of whom are masquerading as somebody else. The Pudding was forced to wring every possible gag from this story; it was not an easy job, and the result frequently is dialogue like...
Almost two-thirds of the anthology is devoted to poets who lived into or wholly within the twentieth century, and many of the old standbys of the Genteel Tradition are given much less space than they have been accustomed to in the past. ("I have tried to wring the neck of the kind of rhetoric that overflowed into poetry from the oratory of the day, and that was fulsome even there. Holmes, Whittier, and Lowell were the worst offenders...
...Witness (Eagle Lion Classics) sends a brassy U.S. defense lawyer to England on a tough murder case, and then watches him stumble through a baffling maze of provincial customs and courtroom procedure. The plot is predictable, but Producer Joan Harrison and Director-Star Robert Montgomery wring some wry chuckles from their bull-in-the-china-shop situation, and keep the story moving at a lively clip...
...many couples Mrs. Baker's biggest task is preserving morale. Women exhausted from fighting to meet expenses or wring housing from the University's agency can turn to her for encouragement...
...bemedaled old soldier with a game leg and a good press. As president and general manager of Eastern Air Lines, he was one of the shrewdest, toughest, most highly admired and ferociously damned of U.S. businessmen, and the only living human soul who had ever been able to wring consistent profits from that debt-ridden peacock of modern transport, the airline industry...