Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hair was skimpier, the waist thicker, but Comic Bob Hope, onstage at the St. Louis Municipal Opera in the Broadway role he created 25 years ago, seemed the same slat-nosed, perpetual lad with the innocent leer. Playing Huckleberry Haines, the matchmaking student bandleader of Alpha Beta Pi, in the Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach musical Roberta, Gagman Hope (aided by his writers) stuck to the creaky plot, but inserted his old vaudeville number Invitation to the Dance, convulsed the audience with typical, topical Hopela: "The President is getting off better drives -he has Sherman Adams' picture on the ball...
...thrown bodily out of her prospective employer's premises, with the chair on which she had been sitting thrown after her as too contaminated for decent people. Skirts were drawn aside from an unmarried mother, and curbstone drunks would crowd the Army's public meetings desperate for hope and help...
...sales and production have steadied. The history of previous recessions shows that once sales steady, inventory liquidation comes to an end (see chart). Wholesale and retail sales moved ahead in April, are expected to show a slight drop for May. If they hold steady for a few months, economists hope that the cut in inventories will...
...their thesis that the current market rise is only temporary. "Current stock prices are higher in relation to earnings than at any time since 1946," said Harry D. Comer, chief of research for Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis. "What the stock market is going on is a large amount of hope...
...another $1,000,000 to light the publicity bonfires and warn the populace that "The Vikings Are Coming!" Reviewers all over the U.S. have been showered with plastic viking ships and savage-looking letter openers in the form of a viking dagger. Seven Norwegian seamen, lured by the hope of adding another Leif to the nautical history of the Northmen, are sailing across the Atlantic in one of the ships used in the film, and the TV cameras will be waiting for them at the docks. The opening of the picture was described by Douglas advancemen as the biggest thing...