Word: flopped
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...stars came out over Palomar, the guests too got a peek-at Saturn, which looked like a bright silver dollar amidst its moons and rings. Apparently it took imagination to make much out of it: the New York World-Telegram headlined its story THE SHOW'S A FLOP, but New York Times Science Reporter William L. Laurence wrote that he had been "dazzled by a new radiance from the light of distant stars...
...office.' What nonsense! You are playing to capacity: what more do you want? ... As for me, it's ruining me. Under this year's capital levy I have to pay the Exchequer ?147 for every ?100 you send me ... I am longing for it to flop before I am quite penniless, cursing the day you were born...
...real gravy in the serial business comes from abroad. Serials flop in Britain, but they are regularly dubbed in French, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese. In Latin America and Spain, where the fans can't wait, whole serials are often run off at one sitting...
...rising curve of Maggie's film career has suffered only two minor lapses: 1) a flop in her one try at Hollywood, where Maggie supported Shirley Temple in Susanna of the Mounties, and "didn't know what I was supposed to do"; and 2) an unsuccessful marriage to a London broker, which, however, produced a daughter called "Toots." At seven, Toots has already appeared in two of her mother's films, gets a sack or two of Maggie's weekly silo of fan mail...
...Manhattan police rounded up four members of a gang which staged phony automobile accidents to swindle insurance companies. The gang had a "flop man" who would throw himself under the wheels of a car, simulate serious injury, give a false name at the hospital. Later another member of the gang, picked because he had permanent scars or fractures, would go to the insurance company, say he was the victim, show his scars and collect...