Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cupidon closed down when calypso became popular, re-draped itself in hammock and palms and reopened two months ago as a calypso club with a Bahamian trio, two steel drummers. It has since added a converted blues singer named Anne English, now "Lady English," and two Harlem hat-check girls turned dancers. Oldest (eight months) calypso cave is Third Avenue's Jamaican Room, where the Virgin Islands' Carl McCleverty packs them in nightly with calypso in close to its pristine bawdy state...
...been his trademark since his early days in Chicago's languid, sponge-rubber school of TV. He used the same technique to provide television fans last week with a highly personal film poem to Maurice Chevalier's Paris. Showman Chevalier, a redoubtable 68, doffed his straw hat and invited viewers to follow him and see "why Paris is Paris." Chevalier's Paris proved to be not the Folies Bergere, Napoleon's Tomb, the Deux Magots or the Flea Market, just as the ubiquitous Chevalier in Mills's film was not "the one with...
...stage long trod by waltzing countesses and czardas-dancing gypsies a girl in rundown shoes and a beat-up hat marched to the footlights and belted out a number called Alles aus Naturverstand (meaning "Everything by Common Sense"). Americans in the audience recognized it as Doin' What Comes Natur'lly. Annie Get Your Gun had settled down in Vienna, and its arrival had precipitated another battle in the running musical war between partisans of old-fashioned Viennese operetta and fans of new-style American musical comedy...
...Pnin's pastoral odes to "Tsentral Park," but few realize that "I search for the viscous and sawdust" is a request for whisky and soda. Devoted to the active verb and the present tense, Pnin invests the simplest acts with explosive vitality ("I never go in a hat even in winter"). In all verbal matters, Pnin would rather be wrong than hesitant, and no doughtier comic immigrant has set foot on the shores of U.S. fiction since Timofey's "tvin" dialectician...
...member of the Queen's court that greeted the Crimson sidled up to one of the varsity players and, after crowning him with the inevitable ten gallon hat, said to him in a husky voice, "You should have come yesterday, we were all sunbathing." The varsity player blushed and hustled off to find his room...