Word: stoppered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once the largest playable bass drum in the world, expired last week after a twenty-eight year battle with damp weather which expanded its cowhide sides, and a mammoth drumstick, which contracted them. But the Bandsmen are not spending their time in idle, tearsome reflections--of how the Drum stopper a Yale student who tried to jump through it, of how a Cambridge boy once rode on top, whamming it with the huge drumstick...
Another crowd-stopper was Citroën's grey canvas-topped Deux Chevaux (for its 2 h.p.-10 U.S. h.p.), a famed little low-priced, four-passenger model sporting an automatic gearshift, the first in a cheap French car. The gears change automatically as the engine increases and decreases its speed. If Deux Chevaux is successful, Citroën will concentrate on producing clutchless cars...
...Show Stopper. In Louisville, attending a convention of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, Harry Albacker had to cancel his act because someone had stolen a suitcase containing his 10-ft., 60-lb. python...
Halbrook's arrival at Corvallis was no accident. As a 7-ft. 1-in. Portland high-school senior in 1952, Halbrook scored 1,035 points. During the N.C.A.A. championship tournament at Seattle that year, Halbrook was a conversation stopper as he strolled past gaping coaches in the lobby of Seattle's Olympic Hotel. Turning down "dozens" of offers. Halbrook chose to go to college in his home state. As an Oregon State freshman-by then 7 ft. 2 in.-Halbrook scored a record 450 points. As a sophomore, and grown one more inch, 20-year-old Swede Halbrook...
From this production, intricately and amusingly created by Dolly Niggemeyer, who kept the show's choreography at a top level all evening, comes the show's biggest stopper, a song called "Terrible, Terrible Crisis," sung by three, played by Samuel Gilflx, Richard Waldron, and George Spelvin, side-step to the praises of sex on the stage. Feek's three assistants, especially Bursk, who continually delighted the audience, also brought encores with an intricate soft-shoe routine in the first act. Further, they contributed heavily to "Judge a Book by Its Cover," a flashy ditty, extolling leg-art on the jackets...