Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could get to sleep.'' From his bout with hard work. Lieut. Commander Cushing was left with a partial paralysis of the left side of his face that still pulls down the corner of his mouth, gives him a quizzical look. He was philosophical ("There was not a damn thing I could do about it. so what was the use of worrying?"). At war's end he went back to the law (in Wall Street), stuck it out for two years, quit in boredom ("The war taught me life could be exciting...
Redhead, a musical now being tuned up in Philadelphia for high-kicking Dancer Gwen (Damn Yankees) Verdon, is described by Lyricist Dorothy Fields: "This is a happy show. It does absolutely nothing for the theater." Translation: a likely Broadway hit (opening Feb. 5), with advance sales already past $1,000,000. The story: something about a dreamy London chick (Verdon), working in a turn-of-the-century waxworks, who gets tied up with a U.S. vaudeville strong man. In Washington, the Daily News's Critic Tom Donnelly called Redhead "a mad blend of Agatha Christie and Mack Sennett...
Castro has fled to the Dominican Republic to plot Scott's overthrow with Batista. "Overthrow, overpass--I'll give 'em free transportation to my island paradise if they feel they got the divisions. Man, I don't want this damn place, I just want to beautify it. I feel that this is the Canadian's burden," he observed...
Doing his bit to whoop the boys up for the annual damn-the-Democrats exercises at Lincoln's Birthday fund-raising ceremonies. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn polled G.O.P. Senators on how many philippics they could unload at party rallies this year, learned to his mild horror that a bipartisan clerk had mailed one query astray. Bemused recipient of the inadvertent, fire-eating "Dear Frank" appeal: Utah's new Democrat Frank E. Moss...
...FOUGHT THE COLD LYING IN MY HUSBAND'S ARMS. When she awoke shivering and wet, Rosemary told Mail readers: "I stood up in the boat and stripped to change. The others were a few feet from me, but it didn't matter a damn...