Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dried, the speeches were dull, and most of the delegates looked as though they were thinking about lunch. M. Jacques Dumaine, the French government's elegant chief of protocol, stole the show. Bowing from the hips, gracefully waving his hands and toying with a monocle (made of plain glass), he ran off the signing in 25 minutes...
...action was repeated Thursday night at 10:30, when Poskanzer was seated by the window chairing a Student Council committee meeting. This time flying window glass cut Poskanzer's temple, and sent the other committee men to the floor before the seven shots were over...
...with what is perhaps the best trial scene ever done in the movies, and with an escape that takes the hero to a Chinese play and a deserted amusement park crazy house There, in the hall of mirrors, Rita and her hubby shoot it out, shattering a lot of glass before touching each other. Certainly, for imagination and advantageous use of the camera, "The Lady from Shanghai" is unsurpassable...
...Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened its 1948 tour with a 33-day stand in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The show's biggest hit: Unus of Vienna, "gravity -defying equilibristic wonder" who balances himself on his forefinger on a glass ball, then does a one-hand stand atop a cane while twirling hoops with his feet, his mouth and his free hand...
...season. Mister Roberts got two votes, Command Decision and Medea one each. The critics then picked Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy as the best foreign play to reach Broadway this season. Neither playwright was on hand to take a bow: Rattigan was home in England; Williams, whose Glass Menagerie had won the prize in 1944-45, was vacationing in Italy...