Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four p.m. Sunday [at the Autumn Salon] a thousand gaping people had passed through the Salle Picasso and some three hundred were in the room, when from one corner arose repeated shouts of "'Dérochez!" ("Take 'em down!"), answered by shouts from another corner, "Expliquez!" ("Explain!"), and from a third quarter, "Remboursez!" ("Money back!"). Numerous young men began carefully and nondestructively taking down the pictures from the wall...
...Listen, kid! I've done everything in the theater except marry a property man. I've been a soubrette in burlesque and I've accompanied stereopticon slides. I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted the house boards and I've sold tickets and I've been fired by George M. Cohan...
...never read 'em. I'm a constructive kinda person. Don't believe in readin' destructive kinda trash. The way I figger is those critics came up against a play that was so fine, so sincere, so puhfick they knew there wasn't anything they could write in praise would add to it. So they went off and panned it. See what I mean...
...factual errors, but they were also buoyant, impulsive, racy and full of the spirit of their subjects. After Washington's death Parson Weems wrote to his publisher: "Washington, you know, is gone! Millions are gaping to read something about him. I am nearly primed and cocked for 'em...
...points the going was worse for the Americans than it had been back on the Norman beaches. At one point the Germans used a "psychological tactic" borrowed from the eastern front-a shoulder-to-shoulder frontal assault by screaming, yelling infantrymen. The Indian-silent G.I. reaction: mow 'em down...