Word: hob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lancaster & Co. flit in & out of Riff disguises, playing hob with tribal ritual and aplomb. Legionnaire Roland (Bullfighter and the Lady) feints through a free-for-all brawl, performing impromptu veronicas with a cape. A sexy blonde paralyzes the Legion by sashaying into the fort like a burlesque queen heading down the runway. All that is missing-and it seems ready to appear at any moment-is the sight of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in burnooses with a few words to say about the script...
Though Alice is celebrated both for its satire and as Dodgson's escape, in the guise of Lewis Carroll, from the repressions of his era and personality, Producer Bunin plays hob with the facts to picture the children's tale as a virtual allegory of the author's difficulties. To point up a tenuous parallel, he not only rigs the prologue but also changes such characters as the King of Hearts and the White Rabbit, who becomes a comic villain...
...House. "Your responsibility as it stands today would be merely to foot the bill . . . It is the people's money that you are spending . . . This bill is where you can save millions of dollars." Vinson quoted from the 1944 report of the Truman Investigating Committee, which raised hob about the Army's hotel leases and concluded "The War Department should review the entire situation in detail and report to the proper legislative committees of the Congress . . ." An aroused House overrode the veto...
...three pools provide swimming facilities for about 200 men each day according to Hob Kiphuth, Yale's swimming coach and former director of athletics. One of the three pools is an exhibition pool set in an amphitheater whose almost verticle rows of seats accommodate about 2200. A movable concert partition between the two practice pools allows adjusting of their lengths...
...skirts the problem of who is going to pay the bills, and with what. Gray admits that rearming the West is going to make the financing of his aid programs just that much harder; he also notes that building up undeveloped areas will be a tough and expensive hob in itself. Gray also believes that Europe is not yet ready to fend for itself; there is a lot of evidence to indicate that even this moderate position may be too optimistic. European recovery has been good but not spectacular, and there is still much to be done...