Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also Ran. In Jacksonport, Wis., Oscar Scott got around to paying an election bet by pushing Mrs. H. B. Mogenson down Main Street in a wheelbarrow, was promptly given a ticket for operating a public conveyance without a license...
Along Lisbon's sunny streets last week nearly all available space was filled with election posters. One bore the likeness of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...
When buxom, 35-year-old Soprano Welitsch bounced into rehearsal, singers and musicians alike picked up more glow. Actress as well as singer, she seemed to know how Strauss's libidinous, necrophilic Salome (based on Oscar Wilde's play) should be portrayed. Says Welitsch with rapid gestures to head, heart and torso: "To sing Salome, you have to have something-here and here and here...
...McKittrick spoke at a meeting of the Boston Women's Club in answer to a previous address by Oscar Ewing...
...charge of the making of a government film epic on the life of San Martin. Recently, he summoned Argentina's top movie actors to his office, assigned them roles. The one part left unfilled was that of the Liberator. The actors went away with a strong impression that Oscar Ivanissevich was saving it for himself...