Word: rubbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never see a movie again, I feel my life would progress quite the same . . . but why, oh why, write such reviews as Hit the Deck [March 14]? I don't believe we should claim that the States has only the best of everything; but, please, don't rub it in. Instead of writing a review on a bad movie, set up another section called "Current & Miserable...
...Godfrey's hired hands have had to learn to ice-skate and swim, but, mostly, his singers need only look at the floor with humility while Arthur tells viewers what good kids they are. On the George Gobel Show, Peggy King's main nonsinging chore is to rub noses with Funnyman Gobel before he wanders offscreen. Denise Lor's task is more elusive: Garry Moore hired her because he thought she was "somebody the Middle West would like." The Midwest likes...
...worldly eye rested on the wonders of nature. As natural history, the book shows astonishingly small powers of observation of even familiar barnyard animals ("the virility of horses is extinguished when their manes are cut"). Armchair hunters will be pleased to read that lions use their long tails to rub out their tracks, that when an elephant pair wishes to have a young one, they first eat of the mandrake (representing Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge), and that whales will let sailors settle on their backs, but dive from under them if they light campfires...
...assassination of President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón that raised Guizado from the vice-presidency to his brief 13 days of power. In sparkling Panama Bay. divers searched for the jettisoned murder gun under the direction of the confessed killer himself, hot-eyed Lawyer Rub...
...contract to begin on CBS next season, with an option after two years for a third year at $4,000,000.* This fat deal, Gleason admits, was in the works for some time. In fact, NBC was in on the dickering, too. "All you gotta do," says Gleason, "is rub two networks together and you get a fire." When the figures were set. Jackie recalled: "First they said $6,000,000 and my mouth dropped open. They mistook it for reticence and upped it a million." The new contract calls for a half-hour filmed show featuring Gleason...