Word: spreeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play tells of two sugar-cane field workers (Kenneth Warren and Playwright Lawler), the one a Samson at his job, the other a Don Juan with the women. For 16 summers, during the long layoff period, they have come to Melbourne for a home-style spree with two barmaids. Each year one of them has given his girl a Kewpie doll, by now a symbol of gaily recurrent romance and absentee devotion. This 17th summer, with the other girl married and a new one (Madge Ryan) in her place, with relations between the two men rather strained, and with various...
...tallest yet made. Among the other newcomers in Plastic: the 26-ft. Luders-16, day sailer and racer; the 15-ft. Feather Craft runabout; and the 14-ft. Owens Speedship runabout. The new construction not only permitted builders to cut costs,*but also set them off on a color spree of red, yellow and blue...
...Crimson tactics seemed to confuse the inexperienced Lions, and their spectacular shooting spree soon fizzled...
Repetto made two quick set shots to give the Crimson a four-point advantage at the beginning of the game, but a shooting spree by Dave Reed and A1 Poulsen' put Brown in the lead, 14 to 12, at 6:45. Crimson coach Floyd Wilson pulled forwards Dick Woolston and Monk Muncaster and center Bryant Danner from the game, and the Bruins took a sevenpoint lead...
...Spree in Paris. Peggy Guggenheim, member of the wealthy copper clan, had a conventional Manhattan upbringing before she married into the lost generation. With her dilettante first husband Author Laurence Vail, she gave some of Paris' wildest parties, posed for Photographer Man Ray in a cloth-of-gold, fringed sheath, balancing a foot-long cigarette holder. Her yen for art and artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum...