Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blared, danced and gabbed merrily into first-night favor. Richard Haydn, who can imitate a fish, gave an imitation of a Cockney lecturer on cookery; as he sucked in his "h's" he almost showed his gills. Blonde Betty Hutton, ballyhooed as "America's No. 1 Jitterbug," shook the props, finally brought down the house in a whirlwind song & dance entitled "Little Miss Muffett." Heady if not flooring, the revue's charm and occasional brilliance recalled the pleasant vintage of its predecessor One For The Money (TIME...
...Soviet motion-picture industry passed at one stride from making crude propaganda shorts to making cine-masterpieces. Three great directors came up: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko. They and others soon produced such silent film classics as Potemkin, The End of St. Petersburg, Ten Days That Shook the World, and one magnificent documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company...
...masses of people, their cunning use even of inanimate objects to reinforce drama. In all of them were moments which could never be forgotten: the disheveled hair of a dead woman slowly falling, straight and perpendicular, between the massive halves of a drawbridge as they rise (Ten Days That Shook the World); the medical officer's pince-nez, dangling from its black cord with pendulum-like regularity after catching in the rigging when the officer is thrown overboard by the crew (Potemkin...
...last week a truck, lumbering along Washington's snowy Thirteenth Street, hit a rut, shook & shivered. On the truck was a cake, 5½ feet high). On the cake was a legend-HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our PRESIDENT-and 58 candles cased in 58 photostats of 58 $100 checks. At the jolt, one of the four layers of the cake cracked, collapsed. Back to its confectioners went the injured cake, but on to the White House went A. F. of L.'s William Green, three pretty girls, three publicity men. On behalf of contributing A. F. of L. unions...
...drunkenness, despite his stout assertion that he was stone sober, that there wasn't a drop in the house. Later that morning, at Edgartown District Court, a magistrate believed the cops, convicted Captain Brown. The captain took the rap like a good soldier, but he shook his head soberly. "I tell you, I heard it," he insisted. "I would do it again if I felt passengers aboard any ship were endangered, al though I was apparently 100% wrong in this case...