Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every week there was this bunch of nuts-that's what they are, nuts-and I'd have to fight my way through to the car. They're just waiting for you to do something. When I'm driving, I have to take it easy, hang back. If I'd cut somebody off, or anything like that, I could hear them yell, 'There's Godfrey, drunk again.' " <¶Ed Sullivan, tabbed by the late Fred Allen to "last as long as other people have talent," celebrated the ninth anniversary of his Sunday...
...with neckties and began looting the place, the 67-year-old Dane huffed and puffed like a heart-attack victim, sagged to his chair in feigned death throes (Tristan und Isolde, Act III) to frighten them off. Said he: "I am something of an actor. I let my tongue hang out of my mouth, and my eyes rolled in my head. I was never better. They were frightened...
...dozen town and country places, including a huge London house, a 150-acre estate near Deauville and a vast Paris mansion. But he was rarely in any of his houses, knocked about instead from one plush hotel to another, seemed incapable of settling on a permanent place to hang his hat-or pictures...
...constitutional contention, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was left with two choices: to resign immediately, or to hang on and face a test in the House. A group of Liberal ministers, hopeful that the government could win small-party support, desperately tried to persuade him to stay on. But the aging (75) Prime Minister was resolved to resign and let John Diefenbaker become Prime Minister of Canada...
...phony market. These characters are afraid they might be caught not knowing something. Some of these advertising guys-real phonies-would be better off running a gas station. You've got people going to the theater here simply because they ought to be seen at the theater. They hang out in these ginmills just to make sure they're in the act. What...