Word: beachful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...George Hamilton ("Ozzie") Osborne, 34, climbed down from his perch 200 feet above Long Beach's Virginia Amusement Park, after setting a new world's record for flagpole sitting-52 days, 13 hours, and 58 minutes. In San Francisco, Milton ("Shipwreck") Van Nolan, 22, settled himself more firmly in his cowboy saddle on a pole above Horsetrader Ed's Kar Korral, swore he would break Ozzie's record...
...drama critic last week, "got tangled in the starting gate Tuesday night, and all bets are temporarily off." That sounded more like a sport-writer than a play reviewer-and it was, sure enough. The reviewer, who got off to a somewhat better start than Sundown Beach (see THEATER), was John Lardner, 36, chipperest off the old block of all the late great Humorist Ringgold Wilmer Lardner's four sons...
...season opened on Broadway last week-with a play that closed after seven performances. Called Sundown Beach, it was a sad little thing in both subject matter and treatment-a bungled tale of flyers who had cracked up mentally in the war and were trying to get out of a convalescent hospital back into life. The new season's second offering, Morey Amsterdam's Hilarities, was far more gaily conceived but not much more happily executed. It proved to be a generally cheesy vaudeville show redeemed here & there by a sort of primitive showmanship...
...jeered and denounced. When lightning struck a house next to his summer cottage on Sullivan's Island beach, its owner nailed up a neatly lettered sign: "Dear God, He Lives Next Door." Every man entered in South Carolina's senatorial race vilified him during the campaign. Congressman L. Mendel Rivers sought to institute impeachment proceedings against him, cried: "Unless he is removed . . . there will be bloodshed. He is now in the process of extracting a pound of flesh from the white people of South Carolina because, through his own actions, he has been ostracized from their society...
Some Romans laughed at this old joke last week. But buxom, 19-year-old Annamarie Proietti was too angry to smile. Annamarie is a waitress from Rome's Communist-filled slums who last week slipped off to swarming, breezy Ostia for an afternoon on the beach with her boy friend Mario. "We were lying there in the sun talking," she told a reporter later, "when somebody tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Where do you think you are -in your bedroom?' There, leaning over us, was an ugly, sweating flatfoot with a big mustache. 'Beat...