Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remained for Milton Berle, Mr. TV himself, coming back to a regular show after three years, to warn the network that when it does get around to promoting new ideas, they had better be good. "I'll be on every Wednesday night, except when we're pre-empted by a spectacular," he quipped. "You know what a spectacular is. That's a word invented by a network vice president meaning 'Let's make the show longer and more expensive, and maybe they won't notice how lousy it is.' " To judge from last...
...team ran quite strongly in its first outing in the Stadium Saturday, trouncing Tufts in a practice scrimmage by four touchdowns to one (or 30 to 8), and any Ivy oddsmakers who were present may well have had second thoughts about the lowly rating they assigned Harvard on the pre-season dopesheets...
...Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. The 1958 season of eight plays constituted a letdown from last year, but it was far better than all the pre-1957 seasons...
Miss Page turned in consummate portrayals of the divorcee and the spinster (which Margaret Leighton attempted so inadequately in the pre-Broadway tryout here two years ago). Her performance in either play alone would have been an impressive achievement. But her ability to undergo such a transformation during intermission was almost uncanny. And this was much more than a change of costume, makeup and wig; she did it through her posture, gait, gesture, diction and other ways. Through extraordinary muscular control, she was able to change her whole repertory of facial contours from those of a stunning beauty to those...
...pre-World War I days, interest in football gradually spread across the nation, and embryonic squads of the future lords of the sport--Army, Notre Dame, Michigan, began to appear...