Word: bragging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lemuel Ayers) was 1948's last new show, and by far its best musical. It is only a musical, and not, like Oklahoma!, a milestone as well. But if nothing about it is revolutionary, everything is right. Full-blooded and sassy and enormously gay, Kiss Me, Kate can brag about its music at least, without blushing for its book; it looks pretty, moves fast, is full of bright ideas and likable people...
...public to come in after the last show and spend the night cooling off in upholstered seats. The wine steward of Washington's Mayflower Hotel noted a 300% increase in the sale of mint juleps and Tom Collinses. The Bluefield, W.Va. Chamber of Commerce, which likes to brag about its town's cool summer weather, did its best to compensate for the 92° weather by serving free lemonade...
...fine musician who has helped carry many a Texan the long distance from San Antonio Rose to Bartók "without going out of my way to annoy them." Dorati has given Dallas world premieres of works by Paul Hindemith, Walter Piston and George Antheil. Some Texans now brag almost as much about their symphony orchestras as about the size of their state...
...Black Queen. The queen of this new fleet, a 48,000-ton superliner, will give U.S. Lines something to brag about. Designed by Manhattan's Gibbs & Cox, No. 1 ship architects for the Navy, the ship has a high pressure steam power plant similar to that used in World War II's destroyers and cruisers. Though smaller than prewar liner plants, it is much more efficient, and will give the superliner a top speed of over 33 knots, enough to bring the transatlantic record to the U.S. for the first time. Though the ship will have little more...
Earl did his best to prove a post-election brag: "We'll improve on everything Huey did." The entertainment went on & on. There was a baseball game, swimming exhibition and music by countless bands. There was also some unscheduled entertainment. Children dropped buttermilk cartons from the top of the stadium and one woman was conked by a falling whiskey bottle...