Word: plug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played when "the big guys"-Eddie Cantor, Irving Berlin-used to come down on weekends to plug songs. In his "more salady" days, he had been the first Negro ever to compose the complete score for a major movie: Mae West's I'm No Angel (1933). Mae had made They Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk and I Want You, I Need You memorable to her fans, but they had never really been hits on their...
...sense than anyone else in the cast, and Tom Pedi as a fat, greedy hoodlum who bubbles "That's the ticket, that's the ticket," while the mob is planning some program of frightfulness against honest citizens. As the criss-crossed lovers, Lancaster and De Carlo steadily plug the reliable old theme of all-for-love-and-the-world-well-lost. Audiences are not very likely to be convinced that their particular world was much to lose...
...Hungarian People's Republic with disgust," Hungarian Radio Commentator Gyoergy Szepesi prattled into the microphone. The only ringside commentator at the world-champion table tennis tournament in Stockholm, ardent, 25-year-old Communist Szepesi was not going to pass up his chance to get in a plug for the new order...
...Smile of the World (by Garson Kanin; produced by the Playwrights' Company) was, like Kanin's Born Yesterday, a plug for liberalism. Born Yesterday is still nourishing after three years; The Smile of the World lasted four nights...
...Including (besides autos) Diesel locomotives, AC Spark Plug, Delco-Remy, Frigidaire, Hyatt Bearings, 26 others...