Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adlai Stevenson, he is an odds-on bet to get the job-a political fact that intensely irks Butler's fellow Hoosier, ex-Chairman Frank McKinney. In a vengeful mood McKinney leaked a story that Mitchell's big, $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner would be a flop, that seats were selling, and not very well, for $7.50. The story was half true, but insignificant: tickets for every kind of fund-raising dinner are invariably sold at cut rates at the last minute in order to fill the hall. And Mitchell's dinner brought...
Dear Charles (adapted by Alan Melville from a comedy by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and Frederick Jackson) brougt Tallulah Bankhead back to Broadway after five years-and itself back after ten. A 1944 flop called Slightly Scandalous, was adapted into a Paris hit, then (as Dear Charles) into a London...
...farm team. Willie had already made himself so popular in Minneapolis that the Giants' President Stoneham felt obliged to publish ads in the local Minneapolis newspapers to apologize for taking the young man away. But in his first days as a Giant, 20-year-old Willie was a flop. The rookie got only one lonesome hit in his first 26 times...
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...