Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victoria, not keen on racing, always kept up the tradition of royal sponsorship of Ascot meets. She once asked the midget jockey Bell how much he weighed. Staunchly, little Bell replied: "My master says I'm never to tell my weight." (He weighed...
...three scripters who rewrote the original screenplay have turned out an almost unbroken series of gags and gambits. For every ounce of Runyon's boozy Broadway sentiment they have added a pound of farce. Hope, past master of the triple-quip and the doubletake, tosses off this mixture with obvious relish. Little Mary Jane, though no Shirley Temple, shows pretty talent as a straight man. Hope's other helpers, including Lucille Ball and William Demarest, provide sturdy filler for an already meaty comedy...
...usher, Donald Carnwell '50, performed as master of ceremonies introducing other scheduled activities between two-line jokes and jovial ripostes...
Berman, Ronald, Stanley, Cairus, David Drew, Durakis, Charles Anthony, Ellis, Jack Thomas, Geick, Harold William (Captain), Gregory, David Palache, Grutzner, Edward Ehlers, Hunt, Roger Browne, Master, Alan Harold, McGrath, Thomas Joseph, McLaughlin, James Lachlan, Murphy, Gerald Dale, Ravreby, Frederick Aaron, Rubin, Richard Herschel, Scudder, Thayer, Weiskopf, Richard Walter, Cooper, Paul Fenimore, Jr. (Manager...
...youngsters just out of college or World War I found their own spirit more faithfully mirrored in F. Scott Fitzgerald. But Morley's faithful coterie held tight to the illusion that a sky-high I.Q. and a sensitive nose for Culture were necessary to appreciate the Old Master's offerings. Readers shivered with delight at his rapid-fire quotations and laborious puns, and reverently slipcovered their autographed first editions. They looked the other way when Reviewer Harry Hansen told them that The Trojan Horse (1937) read "like parody"; even the hullabaloo that thousands of not-so-literary Americans...