Word: razors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humor that can make service life (and TV watching) tolerable. He was one of those rare peacetime soldiers, a guy who never figured to need any "shipping over" music; any Army recruiting sergeant could recognize him as a 30-year man. But Phil Silvers' sponsors (Reynolds Tobacco, Schick Razor) no longer agree. Lately, the Bilko episodes have become more strained, more cluttered with guest stars. With no one to pick up the tab, CBS last week gave Ernie Bilko his discharge. Next season Phil Silvers will surely be back on TV -but in civvies...
...Things to Do." The Pope's day usually begins about 4 a.m. He bathes, shaves with his old safety razor, meditates and prays until 7 when he says Mass. Breakfast is at 8; until 10 he answers letters, quickly skims the newspapers. He is busy with audiences until lunch, after which he prays in his private chapel, then works until 7:45, when he returns to the chapel to say his rosary. Dinner is at 8, bedtime about 10. Sometimes he varies the schedule by rising around 2 a.m., working a couple of hours, then going back...
Debate calendar: Saturday. The Democratic Advisory Council-including Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Adlai Stevenson-put out a razor-sharp statement that the U.S. ought to turn over the Quemoy-Matsu crisis to the U.N., ought to have a plebiscite in Formosa (no mention of the same thing for Red China), also slashed at "world-ambulating" Secretary of State Dulles for dragging the U.S. to "the brink of having to fight a nuclear war." The Advisory Council's added point (later opposed by Harry Truman): although there may be dangerous times when an opposition ought to keep quiet, the Quemoy...
Playwright Teichmann's own screwball inventions do not pay off anywhere near so well. The Girls in 509 has truly funny moments, when a gag cuts sharp as a razor, or a prop turns into a vise. But a situation that never develops the slightest bit of story has to be relentlessly kept going with comic-strip characters and hit-or-miss gags. Worse, loud and obvious staging that only Peggy Wood knows how to rise above underlines everything that is tiresome, or tinny, or both. Actually, The Girls in 509 has just enough winning gags and gadgets...
Trousseau. In Johnson City, Tenn., when detectives arrested 76-year-old Ben Howard Gibbs for shoplifting, he was carrying two cartons of cigarettes, four watchbands, two pipes, four pairs of eyeglasses, 25 assorted drill bits, eleven pocket knives, a ring, a safety razor, a marriage license...