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Word: flipness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltimore, Pittsburgh, it packed them in-but kept stalling off its Broadway opening. Then Producer Michael Todd (Star & Garter, Something for the Boys) boldly announced he would open the show there over the violent protests of Gypsy and Director George S. Kaufman, who wanted it buried. As a final flip of the G-string, Todd took advance ads in Manhattan papers reading: "Guaranteed not to win the Pulitzer Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Todd's in His Heaven | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...hoofing through the hinterland. In a shabby theater in New Castle, Ind. came the turning point of Hope's career. He was asked to announce the next week's vaudeville bill, gagged the assignment to furious applause, turned monologuist on the spot. As a "single" with a flip, fast delivery, he landed a one-week job in a Chicago variety theater, stayed six months. From then on "one triumph led to another and I soon found myself only $4,000 in debt." By 1930 he had reached the top, was playing Broadway's Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hope for Humanity | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...eleven fights, only once has he been scared. When the Japs raided Oro Bay last March, Dicks Bong made a pass at a dive-bomber and then realized a Zero had tagged on to him. He headed out to sea to get clear and flip around and meet the Jap head on. "Imagine my surprise when there were nine Zeros instead of one. But it was too late for anything else, so I tore right into them." Bong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: Bell Ringer | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...Flip Skip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...Honor guest at a newspapermen's jamboree in his home town of Erie, Pa. was Lieut. Colonel Philip G. Cochran. With him was his old Ohio State University chum, Cartoonist Milton Arthur Caniff, who put him into Terry and the Pirates as long-jawed, rip-roaring Flip Corkin. Thirty-three-year-old Fighter Pilot Cochran said that people were always asking him about his girl in the cartoon (Taffy, now No-Name Miss). Of a successful raid he said: "I figured that if I tossed the general staff around some and blew up their headquarters ... it would delay them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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