Word: stoppered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, where the thermometer stood in the balmy upper 60s, the Times-Herald's Page One cartoon was a stopper. J. Q. Public was being smacked by a snowball labeled "early snowfall." Apparently, the paper's absentee owner, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, had decided that when Chicago has an early snow, Washington should observe...
...Aided by a group of very pretty girls, Frank Derbas is a pleasure to watch as he dances the dual roles of Bill Calhoun and Lucentio. Hank Henry and Sparky Kaye put just the right touch of burlesque into the production with their "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." The show-stopper, however, it s a modern jazz song-and-dance number, "It's Too Darn...
That was a stopper. The artists, including Ballerina Galina Ulanova and Violinist David Oistrakh, packed their belongings and took a train in the direction of Moscow. Snarled Rome's Red L'Unita: "The offense to the Soviet artists is an outrage to culture." Said one departing musician: "The Italian government is very uneducated...
...lovesick Willie, Kenneth Nelson has his Tarkingtonian moments, captures some of the fearful gentility and capering solemnity of one whose heart may or may not be breaking, but whose voice unquestionably is. Harrison Muller is a show-stopper as the superior Yaleman who breezes in for a visit in his Winton 6. But various long-suffering grown-ups just go through stock-company motions, and that great pioneer in brathood, Willie's kid sister Jane, today seems just another brat. Ann Crowley, who is a pleasant enough ingenue as Lola, seldom becomes Tarkington's baby-talking, beau-snatching...
Giegengack will put Sidney Williams in the 120-yard high hurdles, hoping to see the high stopper better his 15.2 time of last Saturday. The discus will be handled by Robert Spears and Phillip Swett who can only manage an average of 145 feet...