Word: darndest
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...Barney Shotton did his darndest to help the umpires out. He had his boys storming out of the dugout San Juan Hill style and once had his batter ready to hit before the Boston pitcher had even picked up the ball. On the field Captain Reese seized the ball at the conclusion of each play and presented it immediately to pitcher Newcombe, depriving the Dodger infielders of those happy interludes of flinging the ball at each other's heads which they enjoy so much...
...years on them, working almost entirely from memory and imagination, and had named the figures after friends as a courtesy. "I'm trying to create form, beautiful harmonies of shapes. I wouldn't waste a minute on just the physical aspect, but it's the darndest thing, my work looks physical all the same...
Playwright Gould tries his darndest-occasionally with a serious plea for his warriors' peacetime welfare-clamorously, continuously, with goofiness and gags. But for some reason Tenting Tonight isn't very funny even at the rare moments when it should...
...Music Goes 'Round and Around. Bandleader Al Trace, who had introduced the song at Broadway's Hotel Dixie, had made the first recording (for Hit Records). Said he: "People get so annoyed by the words, they go out and buy it. It's just the darndest thing...
That good old "show must go on" spirit, in fact, was probably one of the major factors contributing to the eventual disaster. Everyone, from director to prop man, was doing his darndest to make this a show for the records, with the result that the product had just too much quantity--and too little quality...