Word: smashes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more of a cave than a college type, had less to say in advance. When the bell rang for the start of their 15-round experiment at the Polo Grounds last week, Rocky rushed out, swinging his fists like stone cudgels, and put a simple idea into practice, i.e., smash away at Roland until Roland fell down and stayed there...
Tightpants battles on alone, aided only by miracles. His Olga Song ("Olga-whose eyes were violets / Olga-whose tears were pearls . . .") is a smash hit, partly because Olga comes "down" with a heavenly choir and sings it herself. His Olga Lasenka Symphony is hailed as "as great as Sibelius' Finlandia." But Tightpants is not present when it is performed in Carnegie Hall. Burned to death in a nightclub fire, he has joined Olga in the homelandia of a Wilkes-Barre grave...
...with Monopolies. To Mexicans' amazement, awe and admiration, Ruiz Cortines sailed into the "monopolists," i.e., Alemán pals who got strangleholds on many business activities. In March he struck hard to smash the monopoly of Mexico City oil distribution, held by pistol-packing Multimillionaire Jorge Pas-quel of Mexican-baseball-league fame. Then, in succession, he expertly dethroned Transport King Antonio Díaz Lombardo, who had made $40 million as boss of the bus lines and head of Alemán's lucrative Social Security Department, and loosened the grip of Multimillionaire Aaron Saenz on Mexico...
Just in from a 23-day fact-finding dash through Europe, the American Legion's bouncy President Lewis K. Gough, an inheritance-tax appraiser for the State of California, got off to a smash start at a press conference in St. Louis: "If we had a round table here, I'd think I was sitting before a Senate committee, except you gentlemen look more intelligent...
...Playwright F. Hugh Herbert aims at equaling the smash success of his The Moon Is Blue with A Girl Can Tell, a new comedy about a teen-ager and her mother. George Axelrod, who wrote last season's hit, The Seven-Year Itch, will be back with another comedy called Pffft, which he describes as "the heart-warming chronicle of a happy divorce." Sidney (Detective Story) Kingsley is hard at work on a comedy about "sex and laughter" called Satyr's Dance...