Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norwegian authorities, the freighter City of Flint was safe home in Baltimore at week's end. With three months' pay and a bonus in their shoregoing pants, safe were her seamen in "Mae's Tavern," "Joe's Place" and the "Jolly Spot." Home was the sailor, with yarns to tell...
Four inches in diameter, deep orange in color, Tetra Marigold has heavy, vigorous petals which make the flower exception ally durable both on the stalk and after cutting. "The colchicine," explained Mr. Burpee, "has about the same effect on the marigold as spinach on Popeye the Sailor...
...wagons, a producer's office, an artist's studio, an all-night Coffee Pot, the Metropolitan Museum, the play brightly wanders all around the town-without ever really getting inside it. Its people-the opportunist and the radical, the glamor girl and the little old lady, the sailor and the floozy (Ann Thomas)-are all cut out of cardboard. Only Rice's bitter, cynical, wisecracking producer walks on his own legs, and even he is stagy...
Sailing with the avowed intent to evaluate the discoverer Christopher Columbus as a navigator and sailor, the expedition for the last five months has been following his exploring courses into the Carribbean Sea and along the coast of South and Central America...
...Since then, Maney has press-agented some 90 shows for virtually every big producer on Broadway and for such oddities as a colored gentleman "a year removed from a treetop in the Congo." He has publicized such hits as The Front Page, Coquette, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Sailor Beware!, The Children's Hour. Says he from experience: "I have yet to find an actor, producer or stagehand who did not like to see his name in print." Among producers, his pet annoyance is the Shuberts. No great admirer of Billy Rose, he admits that Rose is a pressagent...