Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paramount). The Crosby-Hope-Lamour "Road" pictures, in the opinion of plenty of enthusiastic cinemaddicts, can lead anywhere and go on forever. Their comedy is more verbal than visual, but any kind of slapstick-one of cinema's lost arts-is rare these days. Because they fill some of the void, these loose-jointed spoof pictures at least guarantee a lot of good laughs...
Eliot House men with club ties and red-rimmed eyes are exploring Widener Reading Room and learning how to fill out book slips. The pinball machines stand solemnly in their places, gathering dust but no nickels...
...Chicago's Irish cops and aldermen, and even a scattering of priests. They liked it best when Regan swung into The Same Old Shillelagh, brandishing a shellacked stick which was not the old shillelagh that his father brought from Irrreland. At the Stevens, Phil had suddenly to fill in for Dorothy Shay, the "Park Avenue Hillbillie," who was ill with laryngitis. The patrons had come expecting to hear Dorothy's leering Feudin' and Fightin', and got nothing but Phil Regan's clean Irish ballads. But they too kept calling for more...
...Spectator turned on manners of 1 8th Century England." Pacific Spectator had a lot of territory to cover, and no Addison & Steele to help cover it. Since the days of Bret Harte's Overland Monthly, the Western U.S. has had no highbrow magazine of any weight. To help fill the vacuum, 23 colleges had joined as sponsors - "the largest Western college league ever organized," cracked one reviewer, "to support anything but athletics." Last week Pacific Spectator began its second year. It had not yet grown to the stature of a Yale, Kenyon or Sewanee Review...
Housemasters are now in the process of deciding who will fill the 173 openings in the Houses...