Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comic-Opera Finish. One day red-hunting Martin Dies charged on the floor of the House that Henderson had sponsored Communist-controlled organizations. At the next committee hearing Leon jumped to his feet, blurted that Dies was "not a responsible member of Congress." When Georgia's Edward Eugene Cox described him as "a man operating under the alias Leon Henderson," Leon angrily cited his family tree back to 1800 to prove that he was no alien with an Anglicized name. Winding up like a badly written comic opera, the hearings proved only that politics and economics cannot speak...
...ball park: at a Dodger-Giant game at Ebbets Field, 6,000 members of Brooklyn's Knothole Gang (schoolboy fans) will whoop it up for the dear old Dodgers. Cheerleaders: the "Reg'lar Fellers" kids (Puddin'head, Wash Jones, Jimmy Dugan and his dopey cousin Dinky), comic-strip radio characters...
...Hollywood halo has not noticeably affected good old Ginger. She is still the epitome of the U.S. working girl-nonchalant, wise-eyed, self-sufficient, heaven-protected. Her performance as Janie The Beautiful Phone Girl, whose moonstruck propensity for accepting honorable proposals lands her in three simultaneous engagements, is adroitly comic...
...mountains west of Denver, had come briefly to life during the annual Play Festival in its 63-year-old, stonewalled Opera House. This year the festival is operatic. The summer's operas, scheduled for 25 performances, are Gluck's classic Orpheus and Eurydice and Rossini's comic Barber of Seville...
...houses his wife (Dolores Reade, onetime Manhattan nightclub torch singer) and two small children (adopted). At table the comic is amiable but jumpy, frequently telescoping courses on grounds that he is a very busy man. He eats well, worries about his weight and his manly appearance...