Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie and the illicit love affair have a sudden downbeat ending. A sculptor lures Mollie off to Mexico and death by pneumonia. Even with this morbid added feature, the sneak preview of Mike's film draws laughs in the wrong places and he knows he has produced a flop, and probably his last picture. "It's a dying town . . . the last days of Pompeii . . . The Cadillacs are already beginning to flee the doomed city, carrying the family silver and Picassos...
...Flop. Apparently the French Reds expected a fine turnout to sympathize with Comrade Duclos. They ignored the fact that most French workers-Communist, anti-Communist and all the shades...
...strike was a gigantic flop. There were some riots and train delays in outlying towns, but in Paris, ordinarily the showcase of Red agitation, the streets were quiet and transportation was almost normal. M. Brune announced that only 2% of the C.G.T.'s membership had answered the strike call. Of 240,000 postal and telegraph workers, only two walked out-and were instantly suspended...
...building lobby, tried it on a girl tobacco clerk. When she liked it, he telephoned Hill: "I've just completed a survey; the new package is a hit." It was (in spite of Luckies' clangorous campaign, "Lucky Strike green has gone to war," which was a flop...
Baseball's high-priced bonus player is as often as not a disappointing flop. Two current examples: Pittsburgh's Pitcher Paul Pettit ($100,000), now laboring for his fourth minor-league club, the Hollywood (class AAA) Stars, and Cleveland's Pitcher Billy Joe Davidson (more than $100,000), who has yet to show much of anything in the Class B Tri-State League. In Brooklyn last week, Dodger fans were happily pointing to a less expensive ($22,000) exception: Righthander Billy Loes (rhymes with throws), a good-looking 22-year-old who did his schoolboy pitching right...