Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...beagle hound is a friendly, flop-eared little dog with a tail that wags with the furious regularity of a revving propeller. As the "harrier," he was bred in England and Wales at least 600 years ago to hunt small game; today he is equally at home on heath or hearth, looks like a slightly bowlegged, apartment-size (13-15 in. high) foxhound. Last week, as a reward for his amiable ways, the beagle was acclaimed No.1 U.S. purebred dog by the American Kennel Club. With a population of 45,398 registered A.K.C., the beagle nosed the friendly, flop-eared...
...Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, which was expected by booksellers to sell 1,000,000 copies, is a comparative flop. Though 210,000 copies have been bought (v. 280,000 printed), the demand has dropped sharply, and many book stores are now overloaded...