Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of logistics successfully carried out, when the Jap fleet was sighted on Oct. 23, Halsey's fast carrier task force, which had been away from its base for almost two months and had fought 16 actions in that time, was able to engage and smash a Jap fleet in the battle for Leyte Gulf...
Katharine Cornell, back from a smash six-months tour of European battlefronts in her oldtime hit, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, cited some play-acting lines which used to leave Broadway cold but panicked her homesick G.I. audiences: 1) "Italy is a greatly overrated country filled with nothing but heaps of rubbish, dust, flies, stenches and beggars"; 2) "I should be more than willing to give up soldiering to take up some money-making business." Leading Man Brian Aherne reported that when he kissed Actress Cornell on stage, one enthusiastic soldier shouted: "Oh, pass it around, mister, pass it around...
Behind the Bagpipes. The most powerful smash of the week was launched in the north, east of Eindhoven, on a short stretch of front between the Rhine and the Maas (Meuse-see map). For the first time since December, SHAEF spokes men used the word "offensive" in reference to Allied action. Immediate objectives were the fortified road centers of Cleve and Goch. Field Marshal Montgomery called for a typical "Monty preparation"-an eleven-hour artillery barrage, plus an attack by 2,200 planes, including 700 heavy bombers. A German prisoner said later that six of twelve guns...
...Wonder of the 1920s, lantern-jawed, shiny-haired Jed Harris (now 45) chalked up a record which probably no Broadway producer has equaled since: four successive smash hits (Broadway, Coquette, The Royal Family, The Front Page) in less than two years. At the age of 28 he had (counting road companies) seven productions on the boards at once, and an income of $40,000 a week...
...their own door. Fired, he first besought, then threatened badgered Home Secretary Winston Churchill, was finally jailed for threatening the King & Queen. After 43 jail terms, he became a minor left-wing hero, won a $360 annual pension in reparation from Commons in 1931, continued to orate and smash windows until the noise of war drowned...