Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening of March 31, 1943, "Oklahoma!" opened and Broadway was stunned by the impact of the most successful musical show of the American theater. Richard Rodgers had collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II on the show. Eight months later Larry Hart died, and the old team of Rodgers and Hart was ended...
...whistle was one of those which nightclub owners the world over love to pass out to their customers. Tootled shrilly by Argentine Ambassador Oscar Tascherest in the Imperial's supper club, it profoundly irritated the girl companion of a young British ex-officer named John Edwards. The Briton suggested that the Argentine desist. When Tascherest ignored the suggestion, Edwards took a tumbler of water and dropped a tiny trickle on the ambassador's head "to cool him off a bit." Tascherest retaliated by hurling a highball, with glass, at Edwards. "I thought then," explained Edwards later, "that...
...Immortal Lovers wipes the paraffin smirk off their faces. As in her past performances (lives of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Oscar Wilde, George Sand, et al.), Biographer Winwar makes the facts highly readable. The true love story of the Brownings is just as exciting as the semi-fictional versions of it, and far more warmly human...
...swearing-in trooped some 500 Government officials including Dean Acheson, John Snyder, Jesse Donaldson, Maurice Tobin, Oscar Chapman (the other Cabinet officials were out of town) and Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. There were also so many Army officers and so many others friends & relatives that Louis Johnson had to hold the affair in his big conference room. Did Mr. Pace promise to discharge his duties? rumbled Mr. Vinson. Said capable Frank Pace, in a loud, clear voice: "I do, so help me, God!" And in a short speech he added: "This occasion is only possible because...
...Anderson-Kurt Weill musicomedy hit, Knickerbocker Holiday). Hollywood successes (Dodsworth, All That Money Can Buy, Mission to Moscow) boosted him into the top pay brackets (recently $7,500 a week). For his supporting role in Treasure of Sierra Madre, written and directed by his son John, he got an Oscar...