Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What power! We have known nothing like it since my ancestor, Peter the Great, broke a window into Europe by overrunning the Baltic states in the 18th Century...
...Wrote Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: "Musorgsky you are quite right in characterizing as hopeless, [but] his talent is perhaps the most remarkable of all [the Five]. . . . He has some sort of low nature which loves all that is coarse, crude and rough . . . coquets with his illiteracy and takes pride in his ignorance, rolling along, blindly believing in the infallibility of his own genius. But he has a real, and even original, talent which flashes out now and then. . . . Musorgsky, for all his ugliness, speaks a new language. Beautiful it may not be, but it is fresh...
...first place, the U.S. is a land of such glowing opportunity that no candidate need bother to have a brain. Senator Melvin G. Ashton (William Powell) cannot even spell-but, with the help of a smart pressagent (Peter Lind Hayes) and a bit of blackmail, he very nearly makes the White House...
...have its brains beaten out." It also gives coaches some jittery moments. A coach's most difficult task under the new style, says Boucher, is getting his men to switch quickly from five-man offense to five-man defense the split second that a scoring drive begins to peter out. He is frank to admit: "I'd prefer playing the old game, but I like watching...
...reading done for him by a professional. There were never so many children's records to choose from. Among the new standouts: Danny Kaye's version of a children's favorite, Tubby the Tuba (Decca); a new volume in Capitol's Bozo the Clown series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah Shore's Bongo (Columbia). Older kids can hear Lionel Barrymore's reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (MGM) or shiver to Basil Rathbone...