Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roll 'Em." The announcement stage had been set carefully. On the dance floor of the Boulevard Room in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, workmen had put together the setting of a business office. There was a mahogany desk equipped with an "in" box, a telephone and a lectern, with an American flag at one side and a plain grey curtain in the background concealing the nightclub decor. Gathered in the room, on the appointed day, were some 100 reporters and a few politicians...
...standing order, it contained no ice) from an aide. He looked uncertainly at Radio-TV Executive Leonard Reinsch, who was directing the show, and asked how much time he had. Director Reinsch told him to take all the time he wanted, checked with the cameramen, and then sang out: "Roll...
Only You (The Platters; Mercury). The rock-'n'-roll set is gobbling this one up fast. Its gimmick: a regular snapping sound on the offbeat, like a whipcrack. The lead singer, presumably frightened by that whip, shrieks in a quivering, gasping falsetto. A nerve-racking specimen of the continuing rock-'n'-roll dementia...
Gold-Plated Group. To float the new issue, the Ford Foundation, which will get the proceeds, chose a collection of gold-plated co-managers to head the biggest syndicate ever formed in Wall Street. The names sounded like a roll call of the financial world's leaders...
...celebrates her anniversary (14 years engaged) by catching a cold in her Bronxial tubes; and when she screeches Take Back Your Mink ("to from whence it came"), the evening is made. Frank Sinatra, as Nathan Detroit, not only acts as if he can't tell a Greek roll from a bagel; he sings as though his mouth were full of ravioli instead of gefullte fish. Stubby Kaye and B. S. Fully, both from the Broadway cast, suggest best of all the seraphic moldiness of Runyon's ronyons...