Word: semis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Finney the demonstration by Dartmouth students and semi-nude cheerleaders at last year's football game was the cause of the break in the long-standing custom of serenading the opposing college's stands during the half-time intermission...
...flesh. To make it up to the others, CBS has distributed a brochure on the stars' "mike mannerisms" that is jam-packed with nuggety information. Samples: Bing Crosby "always rehearses with his pipe clenched between his teeth, even when singing"; Robert Cummings "reads lines from a semi-crouch, like a boxer"; Joan Crawford is a "microphone-clutcher," while Barbara Stanwyck is a "shoe-taker-offer." Don Ameche (with Loretta Young and Fred MacMurray, he is tied for the record with 21 appearances) drinks a pint of milk before each show "as a sedative." Paul Muni once played his violin...
...become instruments of power politics, and were liable to be changed from one moment to the next. There was a growing longing for reason and "the rediscovery of a common idiom, for order, morality and valid measures." Out of this need arose the Order of . Eastern Wayfarers, a semi-religious body composed originally of scholars and musicians. Members were chosen as students, sent to elite schools, from which only the best were selected to become members of the Order. Since they were not allowed to marry, they were much favored as lovers in the towns where they received their training...
Chief Bender took part in semi-live scrimmage yesterday for the first time in over two weeks, running with the first string line as the varsity tried its offense against Army defenses set up by the jayvees...
...full of memories. Enrico Caruso still seemed to him a "semi-god." He also bowed to Basso Chaliapin : "What a stage personality! I would never undertake Boris [Godunov] after Chaliapin." To Rothier, singers are different today, although since his retirement from the Met in 1939 he has tried to teach newcomers the old ways. "Nowadays," says he, "there are very few great voices because everybody is in such a hurry to become a star. They win a contest by singing one aria - and they are stars before they are ready...