Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nonsense-it obviously symbolizes the human hands held over the face of a boy during the act of circumcision, a ritualistic act among some aboriginal tribes...
Catcalls & Curls. Five years ago, George Wagner was an ordinary wrestler who earned about $100 a match. Now he has an act. Last week, in Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, 11,845 people waited impatiently for the preliminaries to end. At the cue, the amplifiers blared the Entry of the Gladiators and down the aisle strode James (George's valet) in morning coat, Kelly green vest and tie. He took a spray gun from a silver tray and began spraying the ring (George says that he just can't stand germs). The music stopped and a transcribed voice...
Gorgeous, small (5 ft. 9 in.) as wrestlers go, paraded down the aisle surrounded by policemen. His once-black hair is long, marcelled by a beauty parlor and bleached an improbable pale blond. By theatrical standards, his act is too broadly conceived and overplayed-but it goes well in a sports arena. Men jeer him with catcalls and wolf-whistles. When a woman fan heckles him, he retorts acidly: "I told you not to come down tonight, Mother...
...Year, was in trouble. To save its strength, it had lopped off its circulation department (about 30 employees) a fortnight ago. Last week, in a Manhattan Federal Court, the pocket-sized cooperative magazine tried kill-or-cure medicine. Publisher Walter Ross asked permission to reorganize under the National Bankruptcy Act, listing liabilities of $581,425 and assets...
...group whose membership is voluntary, Cleveland admits, enforcing the code would be tough and perhaps impossible. Nevertheless, "let organized industrialists define economic abuses and act against them . . . develop adequate group controls in those industrial areas where real economic competition has ceased to exist . . . look beyond the short-run profit motive to the old but valid goals of true free enterprise. Until at least a start is made in this direction, the possibility of progressive leadership's emerging from within industry is very remote...