Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auditorium will serve for official ceremonies, press conferences, radio and television broadcasts, private and public meetings, movies and social affairs. Be sides a stage which can be lowered out of sight on a hydraulic hoist, it will have two soundproofed radio booths and an elevated booth for photographers...
...spite of these things, the outfit in China still has its pride. In a Marine station in Tientsin a young sergeant was busy at the new marine pastime of writing to Congressmen, demanding recall. Asked whether marines would stage demonstrations like G.I.s, he scoffed: "I don't believe the marines would ever do that-that's a doggie [soldier] trick...
Acid Upstart. Sime Silverman was fired from the old New York Morning Telegraph for panning a theatrical act that had bought an ad. He borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law to push into the clamorous crowd of stage-door journalism. His maiden editorial in 1905 carried an acid promise: to print the news "without regard to whose name is mentioned, or the advertising columns...
...STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb meaning to stage a premi...
...both crowd and clerisy, 57-year-old Bobby Clark has clicked in virtually every form of show business. Until 1936 he was the better half of the great vaudeville comedy team of Clark & McCullough. After his partner's suicide, he went on-as very few survivors of famous stage partnerships have-to achieve greater fame...