Word: flopped
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Breeders tried to blame the flop on the fact that too many inferior skins had been put on sale. Furriers offered less hope. One said that the fur does not wear well, is difficult to work and is too expensive. Said another: "In the old days you would sell those things to people who went to operas and horse shows, but today everybody wears sport clothes to the opera...
North Carolina-born Baptist Billy Graham had arrived in Britain for a three-month, six-night-a-week "crusade" that could conceivably be the flattest flop or the thumpingest success of his 35 years...
...theater, are often kinder than the public, are frequently berated in letters from disappointed theatergoers. Commented Critic Chapman: "Ticket prices are such that today's theatergoer, demanding a guarantee of his money's worth, wants only the hits . . . This results in the almost disastrous 'hit or-flop' state of the theater...
...Motel is happy to send an overflow couple to the Green Glade for their illicit love-making as long as he gets his commission. Gil Leary tickles Harry's "sensayumer" with his birdbrain notions of a Green Glade lounge bar and partnership. Harry's brother. "Morris the Flop,'' sponges off Bachelor Harry to support a wife and kids. In his disciplinarian moods, Harry reminds them all that life is "doggy dog," his own squirrel-lipped version...
After that, Max and his young wife were seldom apart. Together they roamed the bars and byways of Greenwich Village, cleaning up in public toilets, cadging the price of an occasional drink, meal or free flop from old friends. Despite his stubbled chin and unshorn hair, Max managed to preserve a certain courtly Southern dignity, and when the news of his death got around the Village this week, there was genuine sadness. At the San Remo Cafe, Caricaturist Jake Spencer smashed Bodenheim's personal gin glass and proposed a toast. "Max was a splendid type," he said. "He used...