Word: dot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leave his "shack" (broadcasting room), emplane at Kansas City and fly to New York City to get his prize. The ceremony will be broadcast for thousands of hams who learned to tell the difference between a kilowatt and kilocycle at one of Marshall Ensor's after-supper dot-and-dash parties...
...Percy is a stickler for good form. He has the reputation of being Britain's best-dressed Admiral. When not in uniform he looks like a Lawrence Fellowes in stiff collar, polka-dot tie, black Derby hat. In uniform he is splendid. In his first public appearance at the China Station he held a full-dress parade at Hong Kong race track seated on a handsome brown horse, clanking unnautical golden spurs. He used to be a great athlete-an all-Navy cricket and rugby player, a squash-courts intimate of Edward of Windsor, an enthusiastic pursuer...
...Messrs. Shubert have brought back a well-dusted edition, replete with modernized lines that crack wise at Clark Gable's ears and Dot Thompson's voice and figures. It is one of those curious mixtures of slap-stick comedy and genuinely beautiful music, which doesn't shake up too well at times but which would find its justification if the cast were only to step out in front of the scenery and follow the orchestra through Rudolph Friml's famous score. The comedy does get pretty good in spots, and the immense Hope Emerson as Lady Jane, Don Gantier...
...Their pigment, which they lifted in handfuls from five different bowls beside them, was powdered rock and charcoal-white, blue, yellow, black and red. Trickling each handful in a fine stream between thumb and forefinger, they drew lines and wedge-shaped patches as accurately as draughtsmen, pinched off a dot or a spot of color here & there as featly as if they were salting the tail of a bird. It was beautiful. It was also impressive...
...Girl and a Gob (RKO Radio). Coffee Cup (George Murphy) is a whacky extrovert of the Step-Right-Up-and-Call-Me-Speedy school with a TNT punch, an irrepressible line of chatter, a knack-for betting on the wrong side, an unfailingly empty purse. Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball) is the girl. Belabored by a shiftless family of zanies and a vague inclination towards matrimony, she seems completely satisfied just tagging along with Coffee Cup as he churns up street brawls, whirls around the dance halls or lounges in a hamburger joint with his sailor pals. Dot's boss...