Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan was richer, gayer, noisier than it had been since the days of Texas Guinan, the "Black Bottom" and the speakeasy peephole. The big spender was back, nightclubs were jammed and Broadway had never blazed so brightly. But the slim, jaunty little man who had been given star billing at the last big performance was no longer part of the show...
...saga of Chip Gannon and Levi Jackson, due for three more years of exploration, started with a bang . . . . Levi looked very much like a frightened freshman in the opening quarter as he fumbled, stumbled, and then got off a kick on the bottom of his shoes . . . . Chip performed like a veteran, gaining the praise of both sides . . . . Jackson came back later in the game with a series of fine plays . . . . he almost went all the way once, but was stopped by a flying block by Gannon...
...cathedral-like structure which houses among other things, the original Handsome Dan, stuffed and mounted, and one of the country's finest indoor swimming pools with excellent seating accommodations for spectators. So numerous are the tiers of seats, placed almost vertically one above the other, that from the bottom one feels sunk in an enormous pit and from the top one has the sensation of an aerial view of the water below...
...advertisement was as gaggy as the book it was advertising: "Piqued by the small sale of I Never Left Home (1,620,000 copies, mostly to relatives), Bob Hope has written another book. It is called So This Is Peace, and it deals, off the bottom of the deck, with Reconversion." At the bottom of the ad was what seemed to be an added fillip in the same joking vein: "Published by the Hope Corporation...
According to Shapley, he was refused permission more than once to leave the room in order to consult with Eliot. When the scientist started to tear some personal notes from the bottom of a prepared speech, Rankin snatched the paper from his hands. Shapley told reporters that Rankin had "asked questions beyond the authority of the committee and had said that the record of the hearing could and would be edited by the committee...