Word: eyeteeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hepburn and Norma Shearer look like haute couture models, put Greta Garbo in sequined slacks. Lynn Fontanne in a white organdy bow that started a national fad, released Joan Crawford from a movie prison in a little basic black dress that any right-thinking woman would have given her eyeteeth...
...present situation . . . Let us all be grateful that we have had the experience of her artistry for two seasons; the Metropolitan is also grateful that the association is ended . . . I could name a number of very famous singers who thought they were indispensable and would now give their eyeteeth to be back with the Metropolitan...
...Whose Eyeteeth? Was it true, Callas was asked, that she had told Bing she was going to give up singing? "It is true," said Callas, "that I will not sing routine-those old performances of Norma, Lucia. I think it is my duty as an artist. Once you have Callas, treat her properly...
...Kefauver committee dredged up the fact that Wenzell had asked Rowland Hughes if his Budget Bureau work presented a conflict of interest. When Hughes was summoned, he replied vaguely that he had told Wenzell to check with First Boston and Joe Dodge. Non-politician Hughes was jolted to his eyeteeth to discover that he was suddenly a major target in the all-out Democratic attack on the Dixon-Yates contract. Rattled by the committee's questions, he suffered lapses of memory on vital points, and left a bad impression. He was at his most lucid when he said...
...pace that it may find hard to keep up. Most of the excitement of the week was generated by dramatic shows. CBS's Best of Broadway resurrected the 1941 hit, Arsenic and Old Lace, and filled it with a star-studded cast that Broadway today would give its eyeteeth to have. As the addlepated Brooklyn sisters who gently practice mass euthanasia on lonely old men, Helen Hayes and Billie Burke were the epitome of lethal charm. John Alexander recreated his memorable role of their nephew who believes that he is Teddy Roosevelt (and leads a spirited charge...