Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entertainment. Its techniques, particularly in comedy, have penetrated and influenced all other fields of entertainment. Driven from burlesque because the strip teasers were making more lucre, such comedians as Abbott and Costello, Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, and W. C. Fields have introduced their alma mater's well-timed slap-stick comedy technique to musical comedy, the movies, and radio. With such a record to its credit, it is easy to see that there's more to burlesque than meets the eye. We hope the Gaiety Theatre wins a hearing and defeats Commissioner Moss's ill-timed desire to shut down...
...laughs that -- unlike Pearl Harbor, Singapore, et al--are not on you. "Design for Scandal" is in the familiar pattern of sophisticated dialogue comedy; "Rise and Shine" recalls the Joe College musicals of several years ago. Yet both move along briskly, boast a few new twists, and are unpretentiously slap-happy--a pleasant relief from war bulletins and the topheavy sagas of Bogart, Scott or Lynn vs. the entire Gestapo...
...been written since Pearl Harbor, because if we were, we would be in a pretty tough spot, but without a paddle. It's bad enough to hear bulletins telling of Japs in Malaya, Nazis in Libya, and U-boats off the Atlantic coast without having to take an ironic slap in the face when these bulletins are followed by a peachy little vocal trio telling us in anemic harmony to Remember Pearl Harbor, to Keep 'Em Flying, and that We Did It Before And We'll Do It Again, and all right for you, Adolf Hitler, you just stop being...
...milk in their stainless steel bellies, to plants where it is turned to butter and cheese, or condensed and powdered for storing. In Iowa, where more than 2,000,000 sows will farrow in the spring, farmers have begun to think about the hog shelters they will have to slap together, of boards in the shape of inverted Vs or lean-tos thrown against fence corners. Everywhere barns are piled high with hay, oats, alfalfa and corn to feed the new crop of pigs and calves...
...anti-trust suits may have been a case of mixed signals. If not, and despite the questionable relevance of the old antitrust laws in the broadcasting context, the Justice Department might make it tough. In Manhattan, the rumor was that Mutual would soon slap down a damage suit against NBC, alleging violation of the anti-trust laws. With this cold turkey NBC and CBS began the New Year...