Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred Astaire, who was talked out of a twelve-month retirement to pinch-tap for an injured star in Easter Parade last October, got a return break. When his co-star in The Barkleys of Broadway got sick, Ginger Rogers agreed to fill in, effecting a nostalgic screen reunion after ten years...
...volleyed from the high price of neckties to reincarnation (one sprinter wanted to come back as a dog, another as a race horse). Then it lit on the most dyspeptic subject of all - track. The lean steeplechaser asked a half-miler: "Does all that sugar and dextrose you guys fill up on help...
...here to honor the honored dead," rasped New York's Mayor O'Dwyer. "Won't you please act accordingly?" But neither Bill O'Dwyer's pleas, nor prayers, nor singing, nor oratory dented the delegates' torpor. The rumble of conversation continued to fill the air, only subsiding a little when Congresswoman Mary Norton presented the credentials committee's report...
...that someone will rob him, and that he must keep all his paints and possessions always locked up, carrying the keys around with him on a rope about his waist. With such worries, and 50 relatives, and a whole year - and thousands of square feet - of orders to fill, there was little peace last week for Ch'ih Pai-shih. Once in a while he likes to drive out into the country to a quiet place where there is an eight-foot stone on which are carved the words: "The grave of Ch'ih Pai-shih...
Hover gets yeoman assistance from the daily gossip columnists. On occasion, they have reported enough celebrities in Giro's to fill a large section of the Hollywood Bowl. Hover encourages these exaggerations by spending $125,000 a year to promote the legend that anyone seen at Giro's must, of necessity, be a member of Hollywood's higher echelons...