Word: played
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrival in China's Communist capital was the big act in an intensive Communist drive to win friends for Soviet Russia. She is chairman of the new Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, now getting top play in China's Communist press...
When she got to the piano, she didn't have much idea of what she was going to play. She has never worried much about that. "If the crowd is noisy, or I don't feel so good, I just play some of my old arrangements and get out," says Mary Lou, flashing her white teeth. "If I feel like it and the crowd is good, then I just settle back and maybe do a little composing right on the spot...
...hours after the 210 top amateur golfers s"et out to decide who would be U.S. champion for 1949, the tournament came to a water-logged stop. Rain beat down on Rochester's Oak Hill course. When play was resumed, it was too dark for Ted Bishop, the 1946 champion, to complete his first-round match-and he bowed early next morning to a Denver schoolteacher named John Kraft...
...make certain that the old gags and gimmicks will still work, the studio has wrapped them all up in one supercolossal gag. The whole plot takes place on the Warner Bros. lot. Carson and Dennis Morgan, exuding arch embarrassment, play their real-life selves. So do Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn and a few other Warner stars who have been rushed on for bit roles. For ardent movie fans, these peeks at the great may help carry the film. But for most moviegoers, the spoofing is hardly good enough to conceal the laborious spadework...
...easy to learn, and it was a dandy game because it made the winner feel good and the loser feel terrible. All the player had to do was wrap up some garbage, sneak up on his opponent and slam it in his face. But the play had to be fair & square. Just before the pitch the thrower had to yell...