Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pratt-Fallen...
Sirs: Could you furnish me with a little information about the term "pratt-fallen" which you apply to Sonja Henie in the Jan. 29 issue? STAN GIBSON Montreal...
...Sirs: "Pratt-fallen" (re Sonja)&151;a gem of journalese and a first class howl. However, . . . only one t. . . . R. L. SUTTON, JR. Kansas City...
Stewart Reburn, Sonja Henie's figure-skating tango partner, stumbled, hung on to Sonja, dragged her with him, treated 16,500 fans at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to the sight of Sonja (for the fourth time in her professional career) pratt-fallen...
...English theatre knows which side its war bread is buttered on: the bright side. But it doesn't keep mum about the war; it kids it. It makes air-raid shelters and blackouts as good for laughs as mothers-in-law and pratt falls. In the opening number of Lights Up, a new Charles Cochran revue which has struck gold in the provinces and is soon to open in London, chorines wear brassieres resembling ration cards, and preserve their modesty by dangling gas-mask containers...