Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, Arp broke a foil in practice and gouged his side with the jagged edge...
...Left. Almost two hours before the President showed up to take the oath of office, the men of Battery D were in their seats in the stands. They rose as one man and yelled when Harry Truman appeared. Later, they took their positions in two long lines on either side of his car-sedate-looking fellows, carrying canes-and walked beside the car down Capitol Hill. It was a brisk, 46-minute walk and everyone made it except George Hardy, who got a stitch in his side, and "Deadman" Riley, who just got tired. The others all felt fine, although...
...Italy, Ponzi got on the good side of Mussolini's Fascists, was sent to Rio de Janeiro as business manager for Italy's LATI airlines. The war ended his job; after that he eked out a meager existence as a translator. Committed to a Rio charity ward, blind in one eye and partly paralyzed, he said not long ago: "I guess the only news about me that most people want to hear is my death." Last week, at 66, Get-Rich-Quick Ponzi made news for the last time...
...Venice. Finicky Cole Porter also likes a practical joke, if it is on the elaborate side. In the '20s, he and Elsa Maxwell hornswoggled U.S. society in Paris into believing in the existence of a fictitious wealthy couple from Oklahoma named Fitch, who were "doing" the Continent. They planted newspaper stories about the Fitches, and even concocted an art exhibition by Mrs. Fitch, for which Jean Cocteau and others forged paintings. The night bearded Monty Woolley opened in Manhattan in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Porter gave a party for him. The host was the last to arrive...
...Stage (MARCH OF TIME) takes a brief look at both sides of the brassy street called Broadway-the mink-coated, white-tied and marquee-lighted side, and the darker lanes leading backstage to rehearsals where the work is done in drudgery, wild hope and exaggerated despair. Following the career of a young actress (Margaret Garland) who lands a minor role in the current hit Anne of the Thousand Days, this documentary shows Stars Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman going through rehearsals. It also takes a quick look at Director Jed Harris in the process of preparing Red Gloves, starring Charles...