Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hitting the Fan. The general, back in uniform, responded from the steps of the Capitol with a hard-hitting speech full of oratorical thunder, which raked the Administration up one side & down the other. He accused the Administration of appeasing Soviet Russia and thus inviting World...
...semaphore signs, punctuated by shrill whistles, designed to befuddle opponents and give Dodger hitters and runners the benefit of his 31 years' experience as player (third base with Cincinnati), coach and manager. Unlike self-effacing ex-Manager Burt Shotton, he is no dugout sphinx. If some second-guessing fan questions his strategy, he is likely to switch his attentions to the crowd...
After a performance in Boston's Symphony Hall some years ago, an excited dowager swept backstage to the conductor's dressing room. "Maestro!" she cried. "Maestro, you play so magnificently! You -you are God!" Serge Koussevitzky turned to his fan and, with a perfect deadpan, replied humbly: "Yes, modom, and soch a responsibility...
Long Count. In Washington, D.C., after taking the count in the first round, Boxer James Walker staggered up from the canvas to challenge a jeering ring fan, who promptly floored him again with one haymaker...
Ever since Iowa-born Meredith Willson, 49, wrote May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You as a closing number ("something benedictory") for Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show last fall, he has been flooded with up to 2,000 fan letters a week. Once when he tried "to give it a little beat," the letters demanded that he "quit jazzing up that hymn." Says somewhat surprised Composer Willson, who based the song on his mother's parting blessing to her Mason City Sunday-school pupils: "It's not a hymn, it's not hillbilly...