Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot's unlikely major premise is swallowed, the rest is easy: Claudette, looking as luscious as ever in her Adrian getups, is a loveless lady novelist who knows practically nothing about men. Wide-eyed, she boards a train for Hollywood to help in the filming of her smash bestseller. Who should turn up as fellow travelers but Marine Captain John Wayne and Lieut. Don DeFore...
...minutes ticked by. In Washington, less than 24 hours after he had ordered Government seizure of the rails, President Truman picked up his telephone. Once before, in the last half hour, he had talked with two men in Cleveland who could prevent the awful smash: Alexander Fell Whitney, the big-jawed, well-tailored president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen (211,000 members) and Alvanley Johnston, the crotchety Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (78,000 members). Now he talked again, and this time-just 26 minutes before the strike deadline-he got a promise. The strike...
...booming bats of the deep-dyed Crimsoneers are expected to smash out a total score sufficient to overcome any runs sneaked across by the opposition. In fact, Boston and New York sports-writers, after a look at the brutal P. street line-up, were privately confessing the feeling that tomorrow's engagement may well upset the 1923 high-water mark in the string of Crimson triumphs. That year the Crimesters came out on top by a 23 to 2 count; only the 1929 (23 to 2) victory and last year's overwhelming 23 to 2 win have approached the early...
William Shakespeare looked like the Bard of the Volga on his 382nd birthday: his native Stratford blossomed with its customary annual festival, but the Soviet Union broke out all over. Hamlet was a smash in Armenia, King Lear drew iron tears down Tartar cheeks, Two Gentlemen of Verona titillated the Uzbekistanians; altogether, Shakespeare was played to polyglot Russia in 27 languages...
...Broadway these heavenly days, angels are everybody in general. Said Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas (producer of Broadway's newest smash hit, Call Me Mister) to Columnist Lucius Beebe: "You can't keep the investors off you with Flit or a bodyguard. They secrete themselves around your hotel apartment. . . . Total strangers . . . stuff wads of currency in the pocket of your jacket...