Word: sass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, could afford to beam at this stunt; today's showboat skipper can usually count the house by counting the hoots. For eleven weeks, St. Louis playgoers had gone down to the Goldenrod's mooring by the cobblestoned levee and paid 75? a head to sass the actors in his hokum-logged version of Hamlet. Last week, on his way home from a lecture tour, Bryant tarried in St. Louis for five days to give the classic a fillip: his own appearance in the double role of Polonius and the First Gravedigger...
Amiably enough piloted from act to act by Tom Ewell (John Loves Mary), Small Wonder is most pepped up by the singing, spoofing and sass of attractive young Mary McCarty (Sleepy Hollow). With only one unhackneyed satirical target, the show has a sharp eye for such riddled ones as movie endings, magazine ads, the Jazz Age. The fresh gag is Ballad for Billionaires (music by Albert Selden, lyrics by Billings Brown). Sample...
Indecent Exposures. By next morning the story was on front pages all over the country. The New York Times wrapped it up in nine lively columns, including an eyewitness account by its Johnny-on-the-spot photographer, Fred Sass-but not including any of his pictures. An editor explained: "Her skirt was way up over her legs, and the Times doesn't print pictures like that." Everybody else...
...Terrible-tempered Harold Ickes gave salty-tongued Jack Garner none of his sass. Related Garner: "I don't ever recall having had a conversation with Ickes. We just speak or nod. We don't seem...
...Maury was taking an interest again in his home town. This week he filed his candidacy for mayor. His chances looked good. He was a little greyer, a little fatter; he was almost broke, and he no longer talked with his old sass. But San Antonio seemed to want a man without too many surprises...