Word: skit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that I'll tell you about our Smoker . . . you might like some of the stuff we did . . . Paced by "Mrs." TRAMMELL O. (All I do is knit!) SMITH, a slightly swollen matron-about-town, a Navy Wives Club such as no Navy wife has ever seen headlined the skit. . . A bevy of hairy, knobby-kneed "girls" which played bridge, guzzled beer and madly chased anything remotely resembling a husband was composed of men from Section...
...aisles rocked with laughter and groaned with glee at the tasty (well performed) radio skit "Sopus Syrup"--remember Sopus Soothing Syrup the next time you buy. One of the "faculty" was so well received that the was called back again for a few scattered cuss words--correction, remarks...
...RIVES now has everyone calling him REEVES like he wants them to do....It might have been that Skit at the Company Smoker that did it... Our Section Leader, AL PERRINE, almost committed a faux pas the other Saturday morning when we went out on our little hike along the Charles River.... We all broke step going across the bridge and before we all got across, he shouted, "Fall in." I know that orders is orders. Honey, but I was wearing my new shoes...and a clean shirt...
...what he wanted-and knew the soldiers wanted-was not easy. When Hey, Mac opened, there was a terrible to-do over its rough lyrics and rougher jokes. But Evans, arguing that Hey, Mac was for soldiers only, and that soldiers are not young ladies, carried the day. One skit that got the ax had been laid in the reception room of a brothel...
Rudy Vallee asked for a radio skit, and Goldsmith obliged. Says he: "It was horrible, but they asked for more." The Bleeding Present. Goldsmith turns it out in an old milkhouse on his farm in Chester County, Pa. Enraptured Aldrich fans send him their childhood anecdotes, and he has a first-rate supply of source material in his three sons, aged...