Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wayne, you see, is both the actor and the audience. He dresses and acts like Emery, and his actions occasionally parallel those of the lead, but he also laughs quietly at the whole action. Without Wayne the show might flop; with Wayne's superlative acting, especially in the second scene of the first act and the last scene of the play, it is bound...
...such risk venture, Federal and State laws would need some drastic revision. Tax laws applying to N.I.C.C. would also have to be revised. If N.I.C.C.'s profits on successful loans are taxed unmercifully, it could not build up reserves to cover the inevitable losses incurred on businesses that flop...
Said WAC Boss Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, underlining the dismalness of the flop by declaring that there were almost half a million jobs in the Army which women could fill: "Nothing leads me to believe that we are going to get a volunteer army of 400,000 or 500,000 women. We've never been able to get a volunteer army of men that big." War Secretary Stimson hoped that U.S. women would come to feel a personal responsibility "in this total war." But he did not have much hope. Mr. Stimson's recommendation: compulsory service...
...conversational popcorn with Bernard Shaw, was friend, colleague and mental ping-pong partner of people like Noel Coward, Sylvia Thompson, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Webster. In two years, during which she had only two weeks' vacation, she worked in no fewer than eight plays. Nearly all of them were flops. But Miss Garson was never a flop. She had ability. She had presence. She had a ferocious and exacting belief in herself. And she had an almost pathological need for continuous hard work. Envious inferiors called her Ca-Reer Garson...
...whole infernal-looking thing was thrown out. In its place, the Senate passed what amounted to a pious resolution: let the individual states conduct elections, as always. Let them arrange for their own absentee soldiers to vote. (This arrangement, followed in the 1942 elections, was a dismal flop...