Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to Broadway, five years after it ended a run of 835 performances there, went Three Men on a Horse last week. John Cecil Holm's and George Abbott's machine-made farce about a mousy little greeting-card writer whose knack for doping out the races gets him shanghaied by professionals, still has some laughs. And Actor William Lynn still makes the little guy appealing...
...emcee, Moore is just another likable guy with a knack for gags like this: "I only have one haircut a year. Every Thanksgiving our butcher cuts me and the turkey for the same price." His show follows the long-set breakfast-time formula of gags and music, but is more elaborate than most. It boasts two singers (Brad Reynolds and Marie Greene), a straight man to feed Moore lines (Howard Petrie), Irving Miller's orchestra and the Merry Men Quartet...
...current ambition: to get to be a good enough boilermaker to teach the knack of rolling tubes to next year's crop of dislocated bond salesmen...
...once announced the wrong winner at the Poughkeepsie regatta, another time caused Ring Lardner, who sat near him while he was announcing a ball game, to observe that there had been a double-header-the game that was played and the one that McNamee announced. But he had a knack of being breathless, exciting even when describing the hills behind the Rose Bowl, and the fans loved him. At one World Series game, delayed by rain, he cheerfully draped his raincoat over himself and the mike and ad-libbed for 60 minutes in a downpour. Twenty-five million people heard...
Hooton dominates the Department, is noted for his wit and his ability as a teacher, and is highly respected in his field. In course A. required of all concentrators, his ability as a vaudeville comedian is proverbial, as is his knack for putting across solid material with an interesting touch. He is also liked in the physical courses, 2 and 22, where he is probably the foremost authority in the country. Although top notch in physical anthropology, Hooton is unpopular in 4a, his only course in the social half of the field. Coon, in 4b, is considered far superior...