Word: prop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means Hollywood's handsomest leading man, but probably the one most admired by cinemaddicts of both sexes, Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1901, and got his first stage experience as prop boy in an Akron stock company. He had ups & downs on Broadway and in stock. Then, after several years of trying to crash the screen, he was given his first sizable Hollywood role in 1931 (The Easiest Way, with Constance Bennett). By 1932 he was ranked among the top ten U.S. money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites...
...fictional plantation is Belle Heloise and its owners the d'Alverys. There is Madame Mere, who uses her imaginary invalidism to rule the plantation from her bedside. There is Gervais d'Alvery, the heir presumptive. He marries a Baton Rouge stenographer who proves to be a strong prop of plantation life. There is Gervais' sister Cresside, a wild sprig who turns into a solid prop of the proprieties. There are, in fact, so many d'Alverys and other characters that some readers may wish that Novelist Keyes had supplied a dynastic chart and dramatis personae...
Deep-voiced, leggy Ann Dvorak is an admirably put-together heroine. The same cannot be said of the prop furniture: it gets mixed up in Randolph's rough-&-tumble fights and falls apart before it is really...
Premier Kijuro Shidehara, flat on his back with bronchitis, tried hard to prop up his wobbly Cabinet. He accepted the resignations of five ministers on the Allied blacklist, but instead of replacing them with ambitious Liberals or Social Democrats, he chose veteran conservatives and bureaucrats. While the press groaned with dissatisfaction, Shidehara announced that he would carry on until parliamentary elections in "late March or early April...
Last week, NBC's Contented Hour, one of radio's oldest and best-known, began its 15th year. But it was almost a new show. Gone were the moo and the bell, the bleating ballad. Only familiar prop was Canadian-born, 36-year-old Conductor Percy Faith. Regarded as one of radio's top arrangers, he is equally deft with light classics and new jazz. His formula for a new contentment: more Kostelanetz-like arrangements of Gershwin and Rodgers, fewer old soothers like Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes...