Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director moves up and down the line of black-suited, horizontal-striped-tied men. "Hey you there stop shivering. Chest in. No wiggling, damnit. No waving...
Lester Lanin, who has played for President Eisenhower's birthday balls and similar events, has set up shop in one corner of the quadrangular building, and his long-winded musicians stop but twice during the entire three-hour dance. My Fair Lady mingles with Pal Joey, white dinner jackets mix with black ones, red chemises mix with red jackets; but the lights blend all into violet. Some dance in the circle created by the shower curtain, while the jowly policeman at the door smiles benignly at the scene...
...public tastes, possibly bring out some small cars. Whether they will or not, automakers were seriously considering one big change to spur sales: they are expected to move up the introduction of '59 models. Detroit buzzed that divisions of at least two of the Big Three will stop '58 production in July instead of September, will drive in with the '59 models weeks ahead of schedule. General Motors plans to introduce many of its '59s in mid-Sepiember, one to two months earlier than last year. Chrysler Corp., riding in the red for 1958 (see State...
...hours on any given subject without pausing to breathe. Her lovers were so numerous that they ran concurrently, like prison sentences. Mme. Récamier, on the other hand, was bright and lovely as a peacock and quick as a lizard at dodging through chinks. "She liked to stop everything in April," said Critic Sainte-Beuve with French delicacy-meaning that Mme. Récamier drove men half-crazy by drawing them hopelessly on with her flowery charms (even Husband Récamier was denied his wife's bed). She was 40 before she embarked on her first...
Injuries to three front-line performers and a Pennsylvania zone defense were insufficient to stop the varsity lacrosse teams last Saturday at Philadelphia, as the Crimson downed the Quakers 6 to 4. The win evened Harvard's Ivy League record at one win and one defeat...