Word: sillier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against Washington. What happens next is anyone's guess. It may not be baseball, but the fans love it. Attendance is up 15% for the league, and a ringing 38% for the Yankees at home. As for the bookmakers, all the yak about the Yankees could not be sillier. They have the Yankees as 8 to 5 favorites to win: Cleveland is 4 to 1, Chicago and Detroit 5 to 1. and the rest of the league does not even count...
...fifty years old today, on this feast of St. Mark, the beloved evangelist with whose lion heart my own . . . beats like a drum; and if you think that I am going to starve for your benefit, so that you may pirate my work after my death, you are a sillier man even than your pug-dog's eyes and slopping lips would indicate ... I await your cheque...
...always, Brigitte plays a pouty fleshpot yearning for a man (Henri Vidal) who doesn't yearn back. This unlikely situation is sillier than usual because this time, besides her natural endowments, she has wealth and social position as the daughter of the "Prime Minister" of France. But Vidal, dad's Chief of Foreign Affairs, throws gravel in her face as he takes off in his car to meet his latest mistress...
...economical cars that may become the rage." One trouble with the auto industry, Slichter advised the Senate Finance Committee, is "the weird collection of headlights, fins, tails, wings, etc., that is called an automobile in 1958." Reuther agreed with a Dutch newsman who thought that U.S. cars were getting "sillier and bigger" and added: "I think the auto industry should make a car which at least could be parked in a single block...
Giant Guitar. Bellini's Norma, which Callas had chosen for her New York de but, is a second-rate work. It is a rare operatic phenomenon in that the libretto is not much sillier than the score. The story takes place during the Roman occupation of Gaul. Norma is a Druid high priestess, who, though pledged to virginity in the service of the moon goddess, has borne two children of the Roman proconsul. When he casts her off for another Druid priestess, Norma arouses the local underground against him. But in the end she repents, publicly confesses her sins...