Word: nightcapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio show called Moon River was dropped last year from station WLW because it was thought to be out-of-date. Next week, because protests have never let up, syrupy Moon River will be back on the air at its usual time-midnight-with its usual freight of soothing nightcap music...
...study dazzled and "exhilarated as with a raging flame of life." From 1934 to Whitehead's death in 1947 at the age of 86, Price went back again and again, afterward recording each conversation. Once, Whitehead saw him to the door and offered this nightcap: "I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine." But Price took away a record of one of the most probing minds...
...usually drilled rather than dug." Grammatical errors are listed under the head, "English the King wouldn't like" ("He had been ill for several months and had underwent a gall bladder operation six weeks ago," or "Then, after Jim Hearn had left a 2-1 victory in the nightcap slip away . . ."). A lively headline-MOCKTAIL TIXING KILT, COCKTAIL MIXING TILT WON BY-WHO WON 'AT OL' THING ANYWAY? -is listed under "Chuckle heads...
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, a W. C. Fields nightcap, is long, loaded, and likely to leave its imbiber dizzy. In swift succession, Fields falls out of an airplane and into a romance, he rushes an innocent woman to a maternity hospital, and he intimidates every child who comes under his bloodshot eye. The excuse for it all is a bone of a plot which casts him as that improbable character, W. C. Fields. A beery, sneering bum with a face like a malignant baby, Fields pauses only long enough to allow his protege, perennial-adolescent Gloria Jean...
...House basketball, four of the eight teams saw action in A League play. Adams beat Dudley 42 to 32 in the first game of the evening, while Eliot topped Winthrop 37 to 19 in the nightcap...