Word: readiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roughest & Readiest. Stanley Cup tempers were flaring. The Bruins, two games down to the Maple Leafs and faced with elimination, were playing rough. The vaultlike arena rumbled with the noise of battle. Fist fights broke out on the ice, and fans started another by jumping three Toronto players and their coach at the end of the game (which Toronto won, 5 to 1). When Weston Adams, Bruins president, entered the Toronto dressing room to see if the players were injured, he was pelted with profanity by Connie Smythe, Maple Leafs managing director, and ordered out of the room...
Fairly modest about it, but willing to let others share his secrets, contemporary journalism's readiest confessor (earlier autobiographical volumes: Personal History, Not Peace but a Sword, Between the Thunder and the Sun) reports on what he has been up to during recent years. In the spring of 1942, at the age of 42, he joined the Army Air Forces. He rose from captain to lieutenant colonel...
Okay, Young Man. One Sunday last spring while Moss Hart was having a drink in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, a young Air Forces lieutenant breezed over to his table, introduced himself, said: "Would you like to do a play about the Air Forces?" "Certainly," answered Hart, as the readiest way of getting rid of him. But ten days later Hart was in Washington, face to face with General H. H. Arnold. Hart stated his terms: "I must be boss." Said Arnold: "Okay, young...
...shows, last week there were some 30. Audiences may have bus and blackout headaches, may grouse because seats cost from sixpence to four shillings more than they used to. But with petrol rationed, jaunts are few. With the liquor shortage, parties are fizzles. So cinema & theater offer the readiest escape...