Word: fan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks after he wrote a syndicated newspaper column on the death of his dog, Socialist Norman Thomas, six-time loser as a presidential candidate, studied his booming fan mail, ruefully concluded that "I might get more votes as a dog lover than as a Socialist...
Last winter, in Britain for further study in neurology, Freeman got his first crack at Ooi Teik Hock in the Thomas Cup matches (badminton's equivalent of the Davis Cup). He beat the champ in what many a badminton fan thought to be a fluke win. Last week, after proving it was no fluke, Dave Freeman made an announcement: he was through with big-league tournament badminton. Henceforth he would play only...
...CRIMSON clockers have ben at the track daily this past week to check the times of the starters. The field as a whole shows good conformation, especially around the fetlocks. The track is fast and there is no telling what is liable to happen. One veteran fan commented, "With the form I have seem around here this week I would hate to have to make a choice...
Dorothy Parker, noted as a wit, verse-writer (Sunset Gun) and movie-scripter (The Fan), seemed to be headed toward Broadway again. It had been 25 years since her first and only Manhattan production-Close Harmony, a flop co-authored by Elmer Rice. In Dallas last week, jittery but still hopeful, she sat with Collaborator Ross Evans in Margo Jones's Theater '49, awaiting the local verdict on their new play, The Coast of Illyria...
Hollywood has given The Fan some handsome costumes and sets, retained a few of Wilde's wittier lines, and plumped out the familiar plot, like a tired old pillow, into a new but improbable shape. As the wayward Mrs. Erlynne, Madeleine Carroll is going about in present-day London. So is the once dashing Lord Darling-:on (George Sanders). Weighed down by :heir years and greasepaint, they piece together the old story in flashbacks...