Word: rowdiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studio audience recoiled under a shower of dried beans and pin feathers; then a covey of dead quail and a stuffed cow flopped down onto the stage. There were shotgun blasts, scampering midgets, severed arms, proscenium-climbing cupids and baboons in full cry. Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, the rowdiest, slap-happiest zanies in show business, had moved into Milton Berle's time spot (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBC TV) with their first television show...
...tells his Maple Leafs: "If you don't try, you don't make mistakes. And the guy who doesn't make mistakes is not worth a damn." Smythe's definition of a mistake is being clapped into the penalty box. His Maple Leafs, the rowdiest team on ice, last year broke a National Hockey League record by spending 669 minutes in the penalty box, and broke their own record again this season-by nearly 100 minutes. The Leafs also happen to be about the best hockey team on skates this season...
...Texas, rated third in the Associated Press poll after Notre Dame and Michigan, was likewise outrushed by a bruising Oklahoma team, but won. The score: 34 to 14. The hero: sure-armed Bobby Layne, whose throws figured in all of the Texas touchdowns. It was the week's rowdiest game. Oklahoma rooters threw pop bottles and went after the officials, who had to be whisked off the field in a police...
...mastermind the change of command, an old soldier of fortune who had fought through Chicago's rowdiest journalistic wars slipped into town. Ruddy, trumpet-voiced Walter Howey, prototype of the managing editor in The Front Page, had temporarily dropped his regular chores (supervising Hearst's two Boston tabloids with one hand and the American Weekly with the other) to help raise the steam pressure in the Herald-American's boilers...
...27th Chelsea Arts Ball (the first since 1938) was a blockbuster-Britain's noisiest, rowdiest and most splendidly raucous big binge since the war. For the evening, austere Britons removed the pipes from their mouths and dressed themselves as anything, from Roman invaders to the Marx brothers. The ladies favored near-nudity, though a handful of sartorial reactionaries came in 18th Century court dress. One man, recently returned from Washington war chores, just wore a seersucker suit with a red sash and a blinding orange tie he had been given by U.S. Steel President Ben Fairless...