Word: teacups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aflame with rich living, has much the appearance of a gigantic red pepper. But the big voice is just as big as ever, and though no better for training, it does not seem to be any worse for the careless wear he gives it. Lanza still can rattle a teacup at 20 paces with his high C, and with this picture he seems sure to rattle the cash registers all across the land...
...strike was threatened, but Dr. Johnson and his chapter cohorts thumbed down the raise, summarily suspended the choristers' spokesman on a handy pretext. Last week, with the suspended singer toying with the idea of lorming a choristers' union, Dr. Johnson chortled: "A storm in a teacup! They're all there, singing away...
Novelist Goncharov was incapable of firing off the demoniac, soul-searching pyrotechnics of a Tolstoy or a Dostoevsky, but with quiet irony and firm psychological realism he stirred his TNT in a teacup...
...picture, co-authored and directed by Lawrence Huntington, is a leisurely, literate and pungent whodunit from England, graced with good performances and laced with gentle wit. All in all, The Franchise Affair is a polite little storm in a teacup. It is also an exceedingly well-brewed cinematic...
...Yvonne sets about casting off her saloon background in favor of class. She keeps her pinkie raised when holding a teacup, and moves about in circles where the talk runs to such refined remarks as, "May I escort you to the punch bowl?" She also undergoes a moral reformation. She turns up her nose at a life of luxury by spurning two handsome, wealthy suitors, and runs off instead with poor but honest Seaman Hudson, who has followed her to San Francisco. By the fadeout, Yvonne has obviously acquired class. Unfortunately, Scarlet Angel never does...