Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debonair Al Smiley, ex-partner of Mobster "Bugsy" Siegel, inspected Kefauver contemptuously. He refused to explain why, after Siegel's untimely death, a Houston man had asked him to come down to Texas, and why Smiley had shuttled back & forth between Houston and the Beverly Club, the gambling casino near New Orleans controlled by New York's Frank Costello. Smiley's reward for these questionable services was "a small piece of property." What kind of property? "Well, it may have had a few oil wells on it/' said Al, and departed with curled...
Jeritza could hardly restrain herself from giving lessons. Once she grabbed an astonished young partner in the "Czardas" number, whirled him nearly off his feet, crying, "Here-a Hungarian goes like this!" Another time, a dancer wound up in front of her. "Behind me! Behind me!'' she cried. "Never get in front of anybody on the stage!" Nobody really cared that the luster was gone from her voice. "Naturally, she's not going to sing the way she did a generation back," a musician said. "Nobody expects her to. But also don't forget that...
They insisted on strict enforcement of the Sabbath, which caused grumbling from the more worldly Mapai partner. They demanded that Yemenite children, who were arriving at immigrant camps in droves, be entered in orthodox religious schools, and Ben-Gurion gave in. But when the government set up immigrant work villages, and the orthodox bloc insisted that the schooling arrangement be carried over into them, the Premier balked...
...vote went 49 to 42 against the government. Having expected no less, Ben-Gurion resigned, prepared for new elections in May or June. He believed that he might find a new and more compatible partner in the moderate right-wing General Zionist Party, which now has only seven Knesset seats, but has shown up-&-coming strength in recent municipal elections and may well increase its ballot. Once more President Weizmann went through the motions of peacemaker. It seemed no use. Ben-Gurion wanted a new political bride...
...Billboard ad for a new RCA Victor Red Seal record this week. The eminent critical authority behind the statement was Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, but serious opera fans would do well to read the small type on the label. Traubel's plug was for her new duet partner, Jimmy Durante, a man whose voice has all the golden quality of metallurgical coke...