Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Below in the two launches, cameras clicked. For seconds all was well. Then the people in the launches gasped as the plummeting body, having touched fingers and toes in a back jackknife, was seen to straighten and then veer, swing crazily in the air-pressure and smash, spread-legged, into the water on shoulders and back. "He's dead!" someone shrieked...
...performed by 300 pious members of the Community. He was sure that this year the show would gross $15,000. Zion Passion Players pray to God before every rehearsal, every performance. Their prayers have not always prevented mishaps. Chief worry is whether the wires will hold fast in the smash climax of the Play's 27 scenes, the Ascension of Christ, whose role is played by a 24-year-old office-supplies salesman named Le Roy John Peacy. Once a wire broke and 30 angels and 250 onlookers nervously watched Mr. Peacy precariously gyrate heavenward in damaged harness. Passion...
Developing thereafter along conventional lines, Ready, Willing and Able provides a good-humored framework for some smash songs by Johnny Mercer and Richard Whiting, some expert tap dancing by Keeler and Dixon. Nobody in the cast has a reputation that demands dignified behavior, so even the writers seem to be having a marvelous time. It is the type of screen play which opens with the male leads doing a number without trousers and in which Comics Fazenda and O'Connell make their last exit walking absentmindedly into a lion truck...
Fast and furious was the fracas between Tech's mustachioed Menendez and Ben Wood in the 175 pound class. A hard overhand right smash gave Wood a KO in the first stanza, putting the score at three and one half...
...Monopoly board was a bit of oilcloth left over from a roll used to cover a kitchen table. In 933> two years after he had designed the game, Inventor Darrow put it on the market privately. Since Parker Brothers took it over in the spring of 1935, Monopoly, first smash hit perfected by an amateur parlor-game inventor in 35 years, has been translated into seven languages. In the U. S., Atlantic City lots are the basis of trading...