Word: rememberable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the Mayflower Hotel's gilt-trimmed ballroom, the cheers and applause were unrestrained. There were even a few joyous rebel yells as Harry Truman appeared in the doorway, flanked by Mrs. Truman (in green) and Daughter Margaret (in pale blue). Harry Truman grinned and waved happily to the...
He went to the president of the local Fascist Agrarian Workers' Federation and said: "You're a Fascist and I'm a Communist, but you must remember I used to do your lessons in school for you." This approach won him a series of comfortable civil service...
Limeños remember Conchita as a wiry tomboy who, at eight, learned riding from the great Portuguese rejoneador, Ruy da Camara. He taught her also the bullfighting art, first in Peru, later in Portugal, where she appeared in a ring at twelve. For eight years now she has fought...
Jerome Robbins' Pas de Trois, a posturing satire on classical ballet done to Berlioz' thundering Damnation of Faust. In it two men and a ballerina maneuver to upstage each other; one mugs shamelessly, another surreptitiously corrects a pose, or looks bewildered and terrified when he can't...
But Benny, never too glib with an ad lib, has seldom had the last word. Fred is the deadliest remarksman in show business. Once Jack twitted Fred about some fictitious "signs they hold up on your program telling people when to laugh. We don't have them on our...