Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police reported that at 10 o'clock an auto collided with a U. S. mail truck parked outside the Post Office Annex, and that the smash-up drove the smaller vehicle off the bridge. Biddle, a chance passer-by, quickly dove in after the disappearing...
...Russian Question was being built up like no other play in Soviet history. Months before the curtain rose, the Soviet press had decreed it a smash hit; it will be produced in more than 500 theaters; it will be made into a movie; and to all the millions of Russians who will see it, it is being advertised by the Soviet radio as the definitive answer to such questions as: "What does America want? What kind of a person is the average American...
Flea-Bag Years. When the library staff put on a show, Fred was ready. He had rounded up all his jokes and jugglery into an act. "I was a smash," Fred recalls. "They all told me I ought to be on the stage. The bastards. I believed them." At 17, he broke into Sam Cohen's Amateur Night circuit-50? a night. One night a noisy M.C. heckled him: "Where did you learn to juggle?" Allen tried his first onstage ad lib: "I took a correspondence course in baggage-smashing." Soon he got a chance to fill...
Since Max Ernst organized his first Dada exhibition in his native Cologne, 27 years had passed. That had been quite a show. The entrance had been through a public lavatory, and visitors were given hatchets to smash what they liked-since the idea was to give everybody's subconscious desires free rein. In one corner a schoolgirl in a white Communion dress pipingly recited obscene verses. Quite delightful...
...York's old Biograph movie studios when he was only five. At 16, she shoved him into his first solo comedy act, planted herself in the audience and started every big laugh with a stentorian "yak" that soon became famed throughout show business. At 21, Milt was a smash hit at the Palace, rolled on to successes on Broadway. But most of all, he wowed them in nightclubs. (His latest run: 46 weeks at Manhattan's Carnival Club, at $11,000 a week.) Now, Milt says, he is "through with the saloons." "For the first 26 weeks...