Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that she had gone home to mother. Oscar tried to phone her there, was told by the local operator that the line was busy and that he would have to wait half an hour. Cried Oscar: "In half an hour I'll be dead!" Said the operator, soothingly: "Hold on. I'll help you." "Gee, I've found a friend," said Oscar, who once confessed that his troubles revolved around "acute anxieties, ritualistic compulsions, substitutive obsessions and irrational hostilities." He was still holding on to the telephone when cops smashed in and mistook a vial of paraldehyde...
...than his all. New York Boxing Commissioner Robert Christenberry had no patience with such speculation: "Any evil talk is a slur on a once-great fighter who took the beating of his life. The result speaks for itself. This is the end of an era. You can't hold back youth." The boxing commission's doctor, Vincent Nardiello, wrote a finis to Willie's career: "His reflexes are gone ... I will never okay him to fight again...
...Manhattan to Hawaii to London with the ease of their radio rivals. Veteran Irna Phillips, who writes radio's Guiding Light, has to be restrained on the TV screen from a tendency toward writing in big courtroom scenes. Says Procter & Gamble's TV Director William Craig: "We hold her down to one or two a year. They're just too darn expensive...
Meanwhile, music in Tucson has been moving right along. Ulysses Kay's homecoming was only part of a season-long celebration of the Tucson Symphony's 25th anniversary. Though the orchestra's budget is only $21,000 a year and most of its members hold other jobs as well, the orchestra is an 85-piece one this year, and will give ten concerts...
...turns out to be a sort of screwball classic. It is the first movie since On Approval−that scintillating paste-jewel of a picture with Beatrice Lillie and Clive Brook−to torture the moviegoer by making him positively ache to laugh, and then deliberately forcing him to hold it and hold it until he is ready to scream...