Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clowns are the world's incompetents. They are bound to the wheel of incompetence or they cease to be clowns. Chaplin once, in The Gold Rush, broke the underlying significance of his role and spoiled a great film. He forgot Chariot the outcast to become a millionaire and marry the girl, like any John Gilbert or Ronald Colman. Clowns cannot possibly stoop to such romance. They are, in essence, super realists . . . tragedians in disguise. Their endings are happy for everyone but themselves...
...grateful for these early gift orders-especially because entering so many subscriptions in so few weeks poses a very real problem for our Chicago subscription fulfillment office. This Christmas, for example, we have had to more than double our subscription staff to handle the rush of orders that will reach us only a little later in the season. And we would like, of course, to give your order expert and unhurried attention...
...decide to send TIME to some of the people on your Christmas list, I hope you will let us have your instructions well in advance of the last-minute rush...
Tough Like Hell. The U.S. hoped to rush a helicopter and a crew across the Atlantic in time to be of service; it was ordered back from the Azores when word arrived that Swiss guides, Alpinists and planes had the situation well in hand. Swiss Army Private Marcel Etter, one of a party of 73 who made the tortuous ascent, told a TIME correspondent...
Neighborhood restaurateurs grumbled at the rush of unwanted customers, all of them in a hurry. The customers, who were theatergoers in search of a quick dinner between the acts of The Iceman Cometh, grumbled too. Result: prospects of a long run for The Iceman grew grey. Last week the Theatre Guild and Playwright Eugene O'Neill decided that henceforth The Iceman would start at 7:30 p.m., instead of 5:30; there would be no dinner intermission...