Word: hail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assume a pace less torrid than that of the liberal pre-war years. But in 1951 Sally Rand bounced back to Memorial Hall to reveal more facts. "I am a ballet dancer," she purred. Miss Rand lectured '54 on the threat of Communism and then retreated amid a hail of pennies and ice cream bricks. Later when interviewed in her Scollay Square dressing room, she told the CRIMSON "I got no personal gain from the speech. I just had to get it off my chest. I am not seeking political office." During the more recent smokey years, the Committee...
...live to see our Country flourish, as it will amazingly and rapidly after the War is over. Like a Field of young Indian Corn, which long Fair weather and Sunshine had enfeebled and discolour'd, and which in that weak State, by a Thunder Gust of violent Wind, Hail and Rain seem'd to be threatend with absolute Destruction; yet the Storm being once past, it recovers fresh Verdure, shoots up with double Vigour, and delights the Eye not of its Owner only, but of every observing Traveller...
...show up at the "must" parties in a hired limousine (at $20 a night), but abandoned that custom after the limousine broke down on the way to pick them up for a White House dinner for Queen Mother Elizabeth; they skinned in just as the band broke into Hail to the Chief. Now they drive everywhere in their Ford Victoria, and some legitimate government expense eats its way into their own stern personal budget. (Hughes took a 75% salary cut to come to Washington for the Budget Director...
...25th anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera debut of durable Soprano Lily Pens, 51, the Met staged a special gala to hail her, programmed a hit parade of Ponsongs from such favorite operas of Lily's as Rigoletto and Lucia di Lammermoor. From high-domed Rudolph Bing, the Met's general manager, Lily got congratulations and a passel of sterling silver mementos. Almost as trim as she was when she first defied the stereotyped bovine heft of oldtime grand divas, tiny (5 ft. ½ in., 109 Ibs.) French-born Singer Pons graciously took her curtain calls, then used...
Most of Broadway's brightest names turned out in regiment strength at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to hail Theater Grandame Helen Hayes, 55, on the soth anniversary of her first stage appearance. In the grand finale, while Actress Hayes listened with proud Victorian regality, everybody on stage serenaded her with an affectionate rendering of The Way You Look Tonight...