Word: prop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom, slump and boom, is the rhythm of your doom"). There was also "Black Market" in a Piccadilly zoot suit; he offered his wares "out o' patriotism so as ter keep the owld country goin'," Central character was "Fear" (entwined from head to toe by a prop serpent), who declaimed: "Of all lands, my favorite and pet is England, blitzed and starving and in debt...
...Christian Smuts, the wise, venerable, oak-solid Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, was out of office. South Africa, which had been considered safe in the fold of the British Commonwealth (and which last year lent ?80 million in gold as a prop for Britain's sterling), had suddenly embarked on a perverse, isolationist, acutely race-conscious road that might lead to secession from the Commonwealth and to maltreatment and oppression of the country's 9,000,000 non-Europeans...
When the curtain goes up at 8:15 o'clock on an almost prop-less stage, the HTW players will face probably the largest first night audience over to assemble in the College, George Leiper '50, HTW publicity director, predicted last night...
Gorman, who took the Eastern Intercollegiate 440-yard swim in 1947, has won his letter for the past two years and was one of the leading point makers on Hal Ulen's squad this winter. A prop school star and captain at the Shaker Heights High School, Gorman, who swam 220's this year until the E.LL meet last week, left College in the middle of the 1946 season to serve in the Navy. Last week he took third in the Eastern 440 championships...
...past three years on the wrestling team, fills the 145-pound division and this year won 9 of 10 bouts in dual meets, reaching the quarter-finals in the Eastern Intercollegiates at Lehigh. The year before he was the team's high scorer. He captained the Poly Prop School team in 1945 and that year won the Lehigh Eastern prep school title and N. Y. Metropolitan Junior and Senior championships in the 121-pound class...