Word: bravoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once, in 1953, Bill broke through. In the midst of a box-office slump, three Holden pictures-Stalag 17, The Moon Is Blue, Escape from Fort Bravo-hit hard. And for Stalag, in which he played a scrounging U.S. sergeant in a German prison camp, Holden won an Oscar as the year's best actor. He deserved it. The boy next door had become the type in the back room, with rat-grey skin and rat-quick eyes and a furtive softness in the way he moved; for the first time, Bill had almost managed to lose himself...
...finish photo was developed, the stunned crowd went back to its form charts and tried to figure just how it had overlooked those South American visitors. The Laurel band, to its credit, recovered first. "Let us all stand," stuttered an announcer as the band broke into Gloria al Bravo Pueblo. Someone had had the forethought to supply the music of the Venezuelan national anthem...
Back on the podium, he was as loose-jointed as a rag doll as he conducted Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. The frenzied applause, foot-stamping, cries of "bravo," and rhythmic chants of Mitropoulos continued for a full 20 minutes. Next day, after an unscheduled concert for overflow crowds of the night before, Mitropoulos found that he was not too exhausted for the royal meal, after all. ("The King's expecting me, and I hear he has a good lunch waiting...
...Bravo to my fellow clergy in shorts! [Sept. 12] ... May I add an economic note? Since clergy salaries are traditionally mediocre, it may be that the Bermudas are made from an older pair of trousers, thus getting another summer's wear out of them. Being Episcopal priests, it is to be hoped that the knees would wear out of our pants long before the seat. (THE REV.) HERBERT BARSALE St. James Episcopal Chapel Berkley, Mich...
When Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke sued Confidential magazine for $3,000,000 for libel, United Feature Syndicate's Columnist Inez Robb sounded a hearty bravo. Wrote Newshen Robb: "Miss Duke has just struck a blow for liberty, freedom and decency . . . against the most putrid of the so-called 'exposé' magazines now defiling newsstands. Let us hope that . . . the gutter journalists responsible draw a stiff jail or penitentiary sentence...