Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played with some recognizable traces of Tallulah Bankhead, is volatile, egocentric and uninhibited, a great stage personality whose bitter anxiety over encroaching middle age blights both her career and her love affair with a younger director (Gary Merrill*). Eve's original well-meaning sponsor (Celeste Holm) is a hapless show-business phenomenon: as the non-professional wife of a successful playwright (Hugh Marlowe), she feels pangs of insecurity at having her husband dangled constantly before beautiful, designing females of the theater...
...fall term was well under way Wednesday night when two hapless students found themselves locked inside Widener Library's murky vastness. A graduate student, and an undergraduate found all gates and doors bolted a few minutes after the 5:30 p.m. closing time...
...Which for 16 years (1929-45) helped run the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, as one of the executors of the estate of the late baseball magnate Charles H. Ebbets. After the hapless Dodgers had wallowed in the second division for five years straight, the bank hired Larry MacPhail as general manager in 1938. MacPhail drove the Dodgers to a National League pennant in 1941, paid off a mountain of debts (some $500,000 to the Brooklyn Trust) by 1942. †The top four: Bank of America, National City Bank of New York, Chase National Bank, and Guaranty Trust...
Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy shines as the hapless parent in a skilled version of the Edward Streeter comic bestseller (TIME...
Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy shines as the hapless parent in a skilled version of the Edward Streeter comic bestseller (TIME...