Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Billy simmered for a few days, then went back for a second look. This time, he reported with satisfaction, the capacity audience wasn't finding nearly so much to laugh at. "Opening night yaks were being greeted by yawns." Billy's diagnosis: "On opening night, the wise-guy audience laughed fit to bust, either because it was hep to Hart's lilliputian libels, or because it wanted the fellow in the next seat to think it was. But the average gent and his missus are evidently more interested in laughter . . . Light Up the Sky comes through...
...Johnny Rockwell, he may have to sit on the bench, at least until Bill Prior cools off. "You can't keep a guy like Prior out of the game," Barclay explained yesterday. "He took 20 shots against Dartmouth and scored nine field goals...
...rubbed his finger on its heavy underbelly. "Frost," he said. He called for a crew of men with long-handled mops to swash off the wings with antifreeze. "With this load," said MacWilliams, "we need every bit of lift we can get." He climbed into the plane, checked the guy ropes holding the huge burlap rice sacks, moved on to the cockpit and, with the help of his Chinese copilot, got his engines sputtering, then roaring. The plane took...
...Tribune's M. C. Blackman, making a tour of Manhattan bars, found the patrons restless. In a West 38th Street saloon, Otello was largely drowned out by Buttons and Bows from the jukebox, and finally a customer shouted: "Turn on the fights-I want to see the little guy get murdered." Concluded Reporter Blackman: "Opera is not likely to supplant boxing in midtown bars and grills...
Last week all undergraduates at England's Cambridge University got a stiff, stern letter from Vice Chancellor Charles E. Raven. It concerned their behavior on Guy Fawkes Day, on the 342nd anniversary of Fawkes's unsuccessful attempt to blow up the House of Lords...