Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collared Baritone Enzo Sordello, fired from the Met fortnight ago because, claimed Sordello, he had outsung Maria in an unaffectionate duet of Lucia di Lammermoor. In jolly holiday spirits, Sordello proffered a bygones-be-bygones handshake. Maria spurned his mitt and stalked off. Warbled she to newsmen a bit later: "I said, 'Merry Christmas.' He said, 'I want to shake hands.' I asked him to apologize for what he had said. He said in good Italian, 'No. I can't do that.' I said I was sorry and withdrew my hand." Before winging...
...when they come to the library, they ask for more serious books." Result: the library now spends more of its book-buying budget on classics, less on shallow stuff. TV, he says, has also stimulated a reading interest in famous plays, and even the quiz shows have done their bit. Thanks largely to their incentive for boning up on the answers, Greenaway maintains, the circulation of nonfiction has more than doubled in ten years...
...tagged butterflies were being reported. Ordinarily, birds do not eat Monarchs, and naturalists have assumed that they taste bad. Dr. Urquhart tried Monarchs and found that they have hardly any taste, resembling dry toast. So he was not surprised to find that birds eat labeled Monarchs without hesitation. The bit of white paper seems to spoil a natural color pattern that keeps birds away...
...these old-hat tricks were cleverly combined by Playwright N. Richard Nash in The Rainmaker, a pleasant bit of focus-pocus that scored high on TV, and then ran for 3½ months on Broadway during the 1954-55 season. Sold to Hollywood for $350,000, the play has now been made into one of the most warmly appealing romantic comedies of the season...
...there. "Pride? I ran out of that a long time ago," she tells her father (Cameron Prud'Homme) and two brothers (Lloyd Bridges and Earl Holliman). "I just want to be a woman." They rush into town and, in a hilarious parody of the old John Alden bit, invite the deputy sheriff (Wendell Corey) out to supper. The sheriff lends a helping hand. "You need somethin' warm up against yer backside at night," he declares. "Last night," the deputy doubtfully recalls, "was 104 degrees...