Word: missing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Especially praiseworthy was McClellan, who, under the pressure created by hoots and catcalls, sank seven free throws without a miss, all at crucial times. He ended up with 15 points, behind Harrington and Richling, who led the attack with 18 and 16 respectively...
Redhead (book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon and David Shaw; music by Albert Hague; lyrics by Miss Fields) puts musicomedy's million-dollar baby Gwen Verdon in a five-and-ten-cent storehouse of old theatrical gewgaws. The proof of her impishly awesome talent is not that she stops the show, which she does, but that she starts it-and sometimes startles it-into an amusing show of life...
Back on the third level stacks, with his books and clock and everything right there around him, he took out the card, letting the trim run once lightly between his fingers. In a flash it was licked securely in its protective envelope and Lucius was moving boldly into Miss Schroeder's neighbouring alcove, where he placed it devotedly among her papers...
Scarcely had he recovered his seat than he heard Miss Schroeder's flats approaching sharply 'along the stacks. He concealed his agitation and began to fill his pen just as if nothing had happened...
Suddenly one of her gloves, its short fingers outlined in yellow angora, fell to the floor. All Lucius had to do was stretch down and touch it, but Miss Schroeder, moving with a speed unnatural to her bulk, quickly retrieved it. And soon, after a moment of stillness, he heard a quiet, but unmistakable, "Oh!," and he knew it had really been worth...