Word: hoorays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown hands reach out from doors, a Big Ben-like clock strike off-stage at tense moments, and blood trickle over door sills,--if he can work all of these (and more, as in this case) into his script without causing his audience to titter at the overlarding, then hooray...
...half-hour show, grimacing in a succession of funny hats, outlandish garments and size 13 shoes. The fluttery mannerisms, Rube Goldberg inventions and falsetto giggles were the Wynn trademarks made popular by a long succession of musical comedies (Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 and 1915, The Perfect Fool, Hooray for What...
Contests between the ladies and the gentlemen in orange-passing and egg-tossing were featured, and the ebuillent Mr. Todd warbled a selection entitled "Hip Hip Hooray, We're flying on the PAA." He received a broadside of eggs for his trouble and ultimately retired, still smiling grimly...
...actually did was set up private practice in a seaside town. His brother, Innes, aged 10, opened the door to patients-who came so rarely that when one day a pregnant woman shyly appeared on the steps, little Innes gave her one shrewd glance and screeched joyously: "Arthur! Hooray! It's another baby!" To while away the hours, Arthur began to write stories. "This morning after Breakfast," runs a typical note in Innes' boyhood diary of those days, "Arthur went downstairs and began to write a story about a man with three eyes, while I was upstairs enventing...
...that two teams will play from concrete to concrete for a change today, and instead of ho-hums it will be hooray for somebody, the somebody that's hungriest for touchdowns...