Word: smashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puny stage with poor lighting, the Student Fellowship of the Congregational-Presbyterian Church is giving a smash-bang performance of The Pirates of Penzance. Barry Morley, in the lead, has a fine voice that, if not overly dramatic, is always well controlled. His sense of comie timing and fast pace complete an excellent...
Harvard threatened in the first inning when Scheer led off with a walk, and Greeley singled him to second. Clasby sacrificed both runners along, and Johnson smashed a line drive to first. Crusader first sacker Fran Dyson reached high to pick off the smash for the second out, and then beat Greeley back to first for the side-retiring double-play...
...history: it was a 1940 Broadway hit as My Sister Eileen, starring this year's Oscar-winning Shirley Booth (see CINEMA). Rosalind made the movie version in 1942 and has played the role of Ruth in a dozen radio broadcasts. Though always successful, the show was never the smash that it is today, dressed up in Leonard Bernstein's bright music and with the addition of gracefully ungainly Musicomedienne Russell...
...nothing-then you have to work to get it back." The show cost $14,000 to put on and made $600,000 in the 18 weeks that Ros was in it. Most important, the tour got "the kinks" out of her body and helped her make a smash success of Wonderful Town...
Needless to say, we look with fear upon this news from the Midwest. It is not enough for television to change mealtimes, stific conversation, and make exercise obsolete. It threatens the superiority of nature over her own processes. If the good burghers of Toledo see fit to smash every flickering monster they find, we would not mind. For the relentless march of the TV sets must be stopped, lest our most cherished rights of personal choice fall before...