Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Organized for Luxury. During the Aquacade period, Billy stopped running for the first time and contemplated his million-dollar money belt. He was a famous showman. His nightclub, the Diamond Horseshoe (started in 1938), was grossing $1,250,000 a year, and ranked with Grant's Tomb and the Staten Island ferry as a Manhattan tourist attraction. Billy says of this period: "The race is over, I told myself. Stop running. You've won. Let 'em stick the wreath around your neck and snap the pictures. go on back to the barn and take it easy...
Classics. Of 75 productions during 1946-47, an amazing 25 were revivals. But-considering that only a short while back exactly one classic reached Broadway in 23 months-it was good to see famous plays moved from shelf to stage in handfuls. Better yet, it was good to see many of the famous plays themselves-a glossy Lady Windermere's Fan, a lithe Volpone, a lively Androcles and the Lion, a lusty Cyrano, a truly brilliant Importance of Being Earnest...
...what contributions to expect until they arrive, and fills last-minute gaps by diving into the fat "unsolicited" file from readers all over the Empire. Knox does not worry about one important part of Punch: the cover has been the same since 1849, when Richard Doyle drew the now famous sketch of Punch and his dog Toby. It was adopted by Mark Lemon, the first of Punch's editors (his colleagues used to pun: "What would Punch be without Lemon...
...nearly done now, though. We thought we'd never get started this year what with all the rain." The only emotional uplift McTernan gets out of serving 311 years of tradition, according to his own account, is wondering what famous person will be up front on Com- mencement...
...that its huge enrollment gets an organic grasp of the chopped-up area. For this reason the members of the Department can feel that they made the best of a tough situation; but it must also be unpleasant to watch the standards of one of the University's most famous fields decline before their eyes...