Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...darting favorite of U.S. servicemen, dropped in on Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club to receive its 1945 Gold Medal of Achievement for his "notable deeds at the war fronts and in the training camps." Gagged Hope: "As a matter of fact ... I thought Poor Richard was a guy who bet on Dewey...
...lieutenant (j.g.) had become delirious and had taken a swag of sea water. Nagurney pounced on him, rammed his finger down the officer's throat to make him vomit. The lieutenant bit Nagurney's finger. Nagurney's summation: "I guess I'm the only guy that's ever been bit by a shark and an officer the same...
Other highlights of the evening will include take-offs of Radar by the staff and the students, a magic act by Robert P. Lett, and "Information Please," a performance on the piano by Samuel E. Parker, instructor in Electronics, and the "Final Fadar Fanfare," with Guy Worsley lecturer on Electronics, announcing...
...only other play that was produced, his unpopular, elaborate, most ambitious--and probably best--"Guy Domville," was never published. James accepted its failure as the end of his attempts at play-writing. Writing to his brother, William James, about a month after the failure of "Guy Domville," Henry James said, "The whole odiousness of the thing lies in connection between the drama and the theatre. The one is admirable in its interest and difficulty, the other loathe-some in its conditions. If the drama could only be theoretically or hypothetically acted, the fascination resident in its all but unconquerable . . form...
When the trackwalker said the police should be told, Ronald declared, "Sure, sure! Boy, what a tough guy! What a bandit!" But on the way to the station, the trackwalker got to thinking. Ronald had been gagged with his own handkerchief, and had tied himself up. Boy-wise policemen wormed out the rest...