Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they make their way out of their leafy open-air theater, St. Louisans can be comfortably proud of their Municipal Opera, which is neither municipally owned nor opera. Philadelphia's summer concerts in Robin Hood Dell had folded in midseason, and Manhattan's popular Lewisohn Stadium concerts had limped through to an $84,000 deficit. But the St. Louis company has taken in the most money ($650,000) of any season in its history, and played to its biggest one-night audience (11,935 f°r a performance of Rio Rita) during its 12½-week season...
...into position for the picture, she patted its head, stroked its back, quietly coaxed it to extend its hood. As the cobra's head began to bob rhythmically back & forth, Mrs. Wiley felt suddenly that it was not responding well. "It's getting nervous," she said. "I'd better put it away." As she reached for it, the cobra struck...
Balcony Rescue. When Joe Louis pulled up in front of Harlem's Theresa Hotel after the fight, 10,000 hysterical admirers crowded around his car. They kept him prisoner at the curb for half an hour. Then they tore off the car hood, broke the windows, ripped off the tires, danced on the car roof. It took a balcony speech from Joe to disperse them. Joe didn't mind the damage much; he had earned an estimated $413,000 that night...
Last week, Amparo set out to show her brother, and the public,"what she can do on her own. She picked a bad time and a worse place: Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, the night the Republican convention opened. When she finished Liszt's bombastic Piano Concerto No. 1, the 5,000 people in the Dell cheered. The critics cheered too, but less noisily: Amparo had some of her brother's lightning in her fingers, but not enough of his thunder...
...gallows, Brandt was unrepentant. He began a farewell speech. "It is no shame to stand on this scaffold. I served my fatherland as others before me . . ." He was still talking when the black hood dropped over his face...