Word: freak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sadakichi Hartmann? Even his cronies found him hard to define. To John Barrymore, Sadakichi was "a living freak presumably sired by Mephistopheles out of Madame Butterfly." To his biographer Gene Fowler, he was "a bamboo bridge connecting the art of the 1880's with . . . our own time." His short-time employer Douglas Fairbanks Sr. called him "an intelligent spittoon." W. C. Fields, who insisted he understood Sadakichi best, steadfastly referred to him as "a no-good...
...freak accident before the game benched usual starting center Dick Manning; he suffered what is believed to be a sprained ankle in the pre-game warm-up, and may be out for Saturday's game with Cornell...
...Huskies jumped to a quick one-gaol lead on a freak bounce past Chaune Flynn at 1:44 of the opening period. Second on a pass from Manchester at 12:30, and a three man play, Bray to Patton on the blue line to Wood next to the cage, put the varsity ahead at 1:42 of the middle stanza. Ned Bliss passed out for number three to end the period...
...Hers (by Fay & Michael Kanin) uses a comic framework as neat and narrow as a coffin. Written by a pair of playwrights who are married, it concerns a pair who are divorced (after two Broadway failures). In a freak legal wrangle, because they have both thought up a play with the same plot, they get a court order to write it together. Propinquity makes hearts grow fonder, and they decide, if the new play clicks, to remarry. Then they decide that love outweighs success. and to remarry whatever happens...
...held throughout the Soviet Union. Pravda in hand, party workers and activists were haranguing the workers and peasants. Lesser party members quickly picked up the line. Said the director of Moscow's Hammer & Sickle factory: "We . . . demand that the severe hand of Soviet justice should mercilessly punish this freak deviationist." Said girl Plasterer Tamara Demicheva in Evening Moscow: "It was with enormous indignation and wrath that we, the youth of the University construction project, learned of the repulsive activities of the despised hireling of foreign people...