Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was whopping praise, in a land where Shakespeare is almost a trade and understatement almost a trademark. The target was 43-year-old Actor Ralph Richardson in the Old Vic's smash revival of Henry IV, with Sybil Thorndike and Laurence Olivier in supporting roles...
Plan Green. The documents piled up. Hitler had announced his "unalterable decision to smash Czechoslovakia," and the docile High Command promptly prepared for a blitz invasion according to Plan Green. D-day had been set for Oct. 1, 1938 and preparations had been made against possible reprisals on the part of France. Hitler was fully prepared to risk war. Cololnel General Alfred Jodl (who liked to compare his Führer to Napoleon) personally drew up a plan to bomb Prague without warning...
Margaret Truman, swinging a bottle of champagne against a plane's hull to inaugurate American Overseas Airlines' Washington-to-London commercial flights, scored a splashing smash on the third swing (her mother hammered a hull nine times last spring and finally gave...
This week Howard Lindsay and Russel McKinley ("Buck") Grouse were gilt-edging the gag that once dubbed them "the most successful collaborators since the Smith Brothers." They had written the biggest smash, thus far, of the season.* They had, unprecedentedly in Broadway history, two current hits that had opened six years apart, † And with eleven years of co-authoring, co-adapting, co-producing behind them, they had seven successes to their credit against one lone flop (Strip for Action...
...first teamed up, not to write but to rewrite a new book for Anything Goes, which subsequently became an Ethel Merman smash hit. After two more musicomedy successes, they pined for words without music, set about dramatizing Life With Father. The script aroused so little enthusiasm that Alfred Lunt, Roland Young, Walter Huston all turned down the title role. Lindsay himself finally took the part...