Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defendants got sentences of from two to 15 years, but East and West Germans, thanks to Perscheid and Friedenau, got a detailed picture of the dress rehearsal for the frame...
Though long a popular draw in theater and nightclubs, Durante was never a top smash in either radio or movies (see CINEMA) . It now seems clear that TV was invented, in part at least, as a frame for his special talents. The dynamic Durante personality, a sort of mixture of W. C. Fields and Donald Duck, triumphs over old routines and standard jokes. In an opera cloak and top hat, he achieves a Chaplinesque dignity as he insists that Tannhäuser is by Puccini, and in his shocked horror at an ill-bred friend who, says Durante in moral...
...little white frame Congregational church at Staffordville, Conn. (pop. 1,000) is the only Protestant church in town. Most of its 75 members-Italians, Poles, Czechs and some Yankees-work in the nearby button and belt factories...
Combining the two in the same frame is rather like trying to combine earth and sky, but Hancock attempts even that...
Bill Cordes started them off late in the second frame with a goal that put him in a tie for top scorer in the New England League...