Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barely slip by the Boston censors. On the hotter side of the song-leader, Virginia O'Brien sings four torrid arrangements in the Andrews Sisters manner. Giving the audience everything from dinner with the Roosevelts to a boudoir rendezvous with a dozen bare, telephoning Petty girls, "Keep Off the Grass" may not fulfill all extravagant pre-opening predictions; but with Bolger down-stage, its security on Broad-way is unquestionable...
Often Traveler Daniels says in his velvety way that he didn't like it. Of the modern motor highway: "Instead of Connecticut, the rider sees mile after mile of identical right of way prettified with a million dollars' worth of grass and tree. ..." He has a quiet eye for the significantly grotesque: "A gymnasium which looks like a cathedral backs up in New Haven to a dark yard where boys play ball beside a huge garbage heap where first base ought...
Last week, 13,000 racing fans turned out at Kentucky's Keeneland Park to watch Big Bim run in the Blue Grass Stakes, his first appearance as a three-year-old. With ailing, 80-year-old Colonel Bradley watching from his car near the clubhouse, Bimmy, floating along with his tongue stuck out and his eyes half-closed, proved that he is just as good at three as he was at two. On a slow track, without any urging, he ran the 1⅛ miles in 1:51 flat, beating Joseph Widener's Roman by two lengths...
...sooner had the results of the Blue Grass Stakes been flashed across the U. S. than odds against Big Bim dropped from 2-to-1 to 4-to-5 in the future books-first time in Derby history that a horse was quoted an odds-on favorite before the day of the race. While bookmakers stopped taking bets on Big Bim, horse players turned their attention to his dwarfed rivals: Arnold Hanger's Dit (winner of last week's Wood Memorial), William L. Brann's Pictor (who romped off with the Chesapeake Stakes fortnight ago), Charles...
...Smoker Committee's highly advertised "Mystery Woman," introduced as "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan turned out to be a monkey of the same name appearing in the musical "Keep Off the Grass." With a frightened look, she skated around the stage once and retired...