Word: outdraw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billings and Baptists. In spite of Cousin Emmy's lack of schooling, she is an astute businesswoman who knows how to demand and get the top billing which her rustic showmanship deserves. Says she: "I know and can prove that I outdraw Pappy Cheshire [a rival hillbilly] or anybody else. So you just go ahead and put me on top of that there pile, where I belong." Murmured one radio engineer while Emmy and her "kinfolks" rattled the control-room windows: "She sure knows how to keep that program hopped up." A teetotaling, nonsmoking, unprofane Baptist, who forsakes parties...
...onetime tent-show clown, bullfighter, prize fighter, Cantinflas at 31 is vice president of one of Mexico's leading film-producing companies (Posa). His films outdraw Hollywood's in Mexico. Charlie Chaplin, the world's greatest clown, has pronounced Cantinflas the "world's greatest clown...