Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...managed to sell the public on the idea that he was a woman-chasing, whisky-drinking revolutionary who strapped his airplane to his backside and amused himself, on taxpayers' gasoline, from one end of the country to the other. Even in World War II the comic strips knew him best for the open leather flight jacket and the "50-mission" cap perched precariously on the back of his head...
Private Life: For relaxation, likes golf (low 80s), dancing, gin rummy, canasta ; likes a Martini or a Scotch & soda; smokes cigarettes, pipes, and especially expensive Panatella cigars. Hates dealing with household chores; likes loud sport clothes, good automobiles (he drives a Cadillac), science-fiction and westerns, comic strips (his favorite: Dick Tracy), and movies with happy endings...
...cost my friend, Burgess Carey, $500." In addition, Streit charged that a player was crippled for a month when coaching authorities allowed him to play on an injured ankle shot full of novocaine. "In view of his conduct," Streit observed, "Mr. Rupp's sanctimonious attitude . . . becomes ludicrous and comic...
...Daylight saving time began (in 23 out of 48 states) making train schedules more incomprehensible than usual, and keeping children awake-wriggling, crying for glasses of water or sneaking peeks at comic books-for an extra hour nightly...
...Arthur Rank reissues. The Adventuress and Night Train to Trieste are both spy pictures. The former is dull plot-wise, while the acting of Deborah Kerr is even worse. Night Train to Trieste, however, is an exciting thriller, with suave international spies, beautiful women, and a comic British busybody...