Word: smash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Superbly played, this saucy fairy tale by Preston Sturges is continuously gay. It is the season's first smash-hit, by a margin of one night over Rope's End (see below...
...writer earning respectable money? Charles Fulton Oursler, now 36, finished all schooling with seventh grade grammar, in Baltimore. Thereafter he studied French literature, sleight-of-hand, farm implements, music. He earned money by the last three. Real success came with his play, The Spider, a Broadway smash in 1927, now playing in Budapest and Paris. His somewhat spiritualized view of Adah Menken is partly explained by his membership in the American Society for Psychic Research...
...Governor of New York [Alfred Emanuel Smith] and all who train with him that he can not roll into the White House on a beer keg and a wine barrel, for the militant manhood and the emancipated womanhood of America will rise in the majesty of their might and smash every jog and break every bottle and roll every beer keg and every champagne barrel into the Atlantic Ocean...
...Gentry, flying cashier, and Jack Ashcraft, went up in the Cabinair biplane The Answer, after only one practice flight. They unexpectedly ran out of gas after 10 hrs., tried to land through a mist, crashed. Ashcraft was killed, Miss Gentry badly hurt. Her first and continuous cries after the smash were for "Bill." "Bill" was William Ulbrich, at whose mother's Mineola home she lived. He, at the time, was just overhead flying for the record with Pilot & Mrs. Martin Jensen in their Bellanca Three Musketeers. While Miss Gentry lay in the hospital and Pilot Ashcraft was at an undertaker...
...lion, whose name was Wallace, was not looking for the calf or Nelly. He was simply anxious to preserve a new freedom he had found when the menagerie truck in which he, a $2,500 show lion, had been riding was wrecked in a road smash. While the wreck was being untangled, Wallace had trotted down the road and lain down, blinking at the Dorset sun, rolling now and then in the Dorset dust. When his keeper approached, over a hedge had leaped Wallace and brought up in puzzlement before Nelly's calf...