Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told an interviewer he would quit Broadway when the current adventure was ended. But last week, when holiday crowds pepped up the box-office take, he took on a new determination to keep the show going. His taste in entertainment was improving, too: he had seen the new musical hit, South Pacific, and it had "renewed my faith in the theater." Now he wants to do a show as good as that...
...Eckmann, onetime University of Washington football star ('21), who has become a prosperous Seattle haberdasher, gave some pointers on dress. "Don't apply for a job in a sports jacket, sweater, T-shirt, or without a tie . . . Don't hit your prospective boss in the eye with a loud tie, or you'll distract his attention from what you are saying." The minimum wardrobe for a job holder: three medium-priced suits (never worn twice in succession), two pairs of shoes-and a hat. "College graduates frequently don't realize the importance of wearing hats...
...Belvedere Goes to College (20th Century-Fox) gives Clifton Webb a chance to go on playing the comedy role that turned last year's Sitting Pretty into a smash box-office hit. Mr. Belvedere is no longer a babysitter, but he is still insufferably and hilariously patronizing; he is still a self-confessed genius and he is still broke. His bestselling book, Hummingbird Hill, has won him fame, but lost him a fortune in libel suits. All he has left is a $10,000 prize which he can collect only by taking a college degree. With acidulous hauteur...
...much the same way, another amateur-turned-general, Richard Mentor Johnson, licked Tecumseh by using cavalry as mounted infantry. In the Civil War, two Northern generals, John Buford and Phil Sheridan, carried Johnson's tactic still further; they broke completely with the flashy hit & run use of men on horseback, and employed cavalry as "a fast motorized column of infantry...
...after an incident at the Polo Grounds was hear toned by the support of many fans who said they witnessed the affair and declared Durocher was blameless. One fan even said he "accidentally kicked and tripped over" Fred Boyson. Boyson, a 22-year old Brooklyn fan, charged that Durocher hit him from behind, knocked him to the ground and scuffed him, after the Giant's 15 to 2 loss to the Dodgers Thursday...