Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst play in Broadway annals, Maid in the Ozarks is very likely the most needlessly disgusting. Though its publicity stresses sex, it contains little except the sort exemplified in a game of footie between two younkers known as Daisy Bell (Cecile de Lucas) and Thad Calhoun (Larry Sherman). Its long suit is actually scatology - lice, bedbugs, belches, outhouses, bare and dirty feet planted on the breakfast table. These intended guffaw-getters are complemented by such basic hillbilly humors as drunken lechers, gabbling halfwits and twitching hags...
...Bell, Book and Candle." Henry VIII stood firm by day, danced the night through with his witch. When the Pope cursed him "with bell, book and candle," and at last excommunicated him, Henry replied that "if the Pope issued ten thousand excommunications, he would not care a straw." Henry exulted because his new Queen was pregnant, and the best necromancers, astrologers and wizards all agreed that the portents indicated an heir to the throne. When, instead, a puling female appeared, Henry's fury was terrible. Was it for this insignificant Elizabeth that he had defied the Pope, divorced...
...Camarda (U.S.) defeated Wightman (H) 6-0, 4-6, 6-2; Swartzman (H) defeated Munn (U.S.) 6-2, 6-3; Slaver (U.S.) defeated Muldoon (H) 6-2, 6-1; Gresham (H) defeated Fuller (U.S.) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Mayleas (H) defeated Bell (U.S.) 6-4, 6-8, 6-3, and Johnson (U.S.) defeated Melvin...
Doubles: Kulik and Camarda (U.S.) defeated Brady and McGovern (H) 6-2, 8-6; Munn and Bell (U.S.) defeated Wightman and Swartzman, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3; Slauer and Fuller (U.S.) defeated Grasham and Muldoon (H) 6-4, 6-0, and Johnson and McGinnis (U.S.) defeated Mayleas and Melvin...
Ernest Hemingway: "Most of it is tough going." For Whom the Bell Tolls took 17 months of work, on a daily 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. schedule...