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Word: auditorium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rose's hitherto unchallenged supremacy in the field of water extravaganzas is gravely threatened by the Northamptonites. Feature event of the evening will be the finale, which will take place with the auditorium dark as 35 girls, with lights attached to their anatomy at strategic points, perform intricate water ballet figures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Well-Lit Mermaids, 35 in All, Challenge Billy's Supremacy | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

...Their piece de resistance is a boiled, partly skinned head (the actor is wrapped in a silk stocking and daubed with putty, sponge, cloth and "blood"). The theater has a secret recipe for blood; when the stuff cools it coagulates and makes scabs. Thrill-hungry customers in the small auditorium get a dividend when they overhear the hoarse backstage whisper: "Vite, Edmond! Warm up the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Murders in the Rue Chaptal | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Forty-five goggling Pine Manor girls emerged from their lace-hung auditorium, half-way down the road to Wellesley, last night with a rudementary knowledge of the Swedish financial structure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Match-Boxes, Graphs Set Manor Girls Agog | 2/27/1947 | See Source »

...also been credited with terrible public manners, being "a radical and a New Deal crackpot," allegedly buying poll-tax receipts with union funds (although he was acquitted in the courts), and turning the civic auditorium over to a bunch of Communists for a meeting. That last move brought on one of the worst riots in San Antonio's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Maury's Back! | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Director Jerome T. Kilty '50 leaned back in his last-row seat in the auditorium, and as Shaw's ideal Saint Joan passionately pleaded with the inquisitors, he closed his eyes and said of Weisgal, "No woman has ever thrilled me so. Ahhhh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girls Going Green with Jealousy as Weisgal Flaunts His Tresses in Tryouts for 'St. Joan' | 2/8/1947 | See Source »

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