Word: heyes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ladder, Acheson turned and waved cheerily. "Bring home the bacon," shouted John J. McCloy, the new American High Commissioner in Germany. "Bon voyage" shouted Alben Barkley. Harry Truman looked at him in mock amazement. "What did you say?" he asked, then turned to look for French Ambassador Henri Bonnet. "Hey, Bonnet, this guy's trying to talk French," said Truman gleefully...
Armed with a hot tip on number 2 and unable to watch from any place but the far turn, the two saw the horses toddic by into the stretch. They heard the following jockey repartee as the beasts passed by. "Hey, where's number 2? Let him through, let him through...
Bullets & Strain. Most of the best gags are delivered by Sid Caesar (Make Mine Manhattan), Comedienne Imogene Coca (who still looks too young to have played in Hey wood Broun's 1931 Shoot the Works), and Singer Mary McCarty (Small Wonder). With his insane leer and try-anything manner, Caesar can act out an entire horse opera singlehanded-from horses to Indian smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear...
...shooting, the atmosphere on the huge sound stage often became intensely uncomfortable. "Juniper Hill State Hospital" grew as real to the actors' eyes as to the camera's lens. At one point, an elderly extra, abstractedly scratching her stomach, turned to one of the actresses and said: "Hey, didja ever see so many characters in one place?" As the actress recalls it: "Suddenly it struck me-my God, maybe I am crazy. What's the norm? How can you tell?" When the superintendent of nurses at a California institution visited the set, she looked at the sobbing...
Afterward, Gus posed with Donaldson and Goldman (who is postmaster of the U.S.'s largest postoffice). Gus was unruffled. "Hey, Gus," yelled a newsman, "is it true you fellows read all the postcards?" "We sure do," said Gus. "I sure hope that ain't a federal offense...