Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Success in the movies came more slowly. Having achieved complete mastery over the air, Hope remained a flop on the lot. At last Paramount woke up, but it made Hope wake up also. Before handing him the lead in The Cat and the Canary, Paramount Producer Arthur Hornblow talked to Hope like a Dutch uncle, told him he'd do anything for a laugh-gore another actor, bolt clean out of character. Hope began, fumed Hornblow, by making audiences grin, ended by making them grit their teeth. The Cat and the Canary clicked: since then Hope has whizzed through...
...Presidential radio debut had been a flop. But four days later Woodrow Wilson used the contraption to talk to his Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Washington - a gentleman who was to become the most celebrated radio figure in history...
...November they moved to Egypt, helped the Eighth Army's offensive by blowing up Rommel's oil dumps and two tankers at Tobruk. Thereafter Rommel's supply of oil came only by air transport. The 513th hit Tobruk ("the milk run") nearly every morning. Their biggest flop: once they set out for Tripoli, got lost looking for Sousse, finally reached Gabes, where they dropped their bombs and killed only a mess of fish...
...good anti-tank weapons against them." The German tanks had only to be "fast enough to rumble through after the enemy's artillery had been blasted from its fixed positions, which were easy to hit." The highly touted 60-ton German Mark VI, said the General, is a flop...
...Louis to conduct an oldtime German Stinger fest and found Traubel scheduled as a soloist. He was so bowled over by her voice that he invited her to Manhattan, promptly wrote a part for her in his opera The Man without a Country. The opera 'was a flop, but Traubel stayed on in Manhattan, cooking her own meals, mending her own clothes, plugging away patiently at her vocal studies. Two years later she managed to scrape up the cash for a Town Hall debut and critics made such a fuss that the Metropolitan added her to its permanent staff...