Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guess I'll fix you with some new strings, fifteen cents...
...Altoona, so few citizens west of the Main Stem are paying to see touring shows that a conference of theater operators met in Manhattan to search for a way to boost show business in the sticks, or, as Variety might say, to look for trix to fix stix...
...lack of real hope for future improvement, there was general agreement that even on the road the theater could be counted on to keep dying for a long time. The only solid way to fix stix is through clix. Said Warren Caro, executive director of Theatre Guild-American Theater: "Basically, it all goes back to Broadway. The road's ups and downs reflect the strength of the New York season. If New York offers good and popular plays, the road doesn't have to worry...
...spring his father from the "frozen prison" of the Soviet Union, but as it was, he could not even get food packages through to him. All this changed one day in 1936 when a seedy character who called himself Edward Herbert sidled backstage at Paramount and said he could fix things so that Morros Sr. would get his hampers. After the wheedling and finagling came the bullying, and Morros found himself being hectored by "Herbert," now a foul-mouthed drunken oaf called Zubilin, who said he was boss of the NKVD...
...button, the clock starts running. The sound of the shot stops the clock. The Colorado Frontier Gunslingers' President Jim Dillon, a Denver butcher who likes to wear Western clothes under his meatcutter's apron, has been timed at a flashy .12 sec. In other contests, contestants fix a man-sized target, are timed from draw to bullet's impact...