Word: til
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front of the Barber Shop and then walked over to stand in two orderly rows flanking the police barrier. There was a little boy leaning on the barrier. He turned to one of the boys with the signs. "How much they givin' ya?" "Dunno. They ain't payin' us 'til after." The little boy looked over towards the barber shop. "Any left?" "Dunno. Wyn'cha go look?" The little boy started to brush through the crowd, then stopped and looked at the bigger boy. "You from 'round here?" "Nah," said the bigger boy. "Eighth street." "Why you here...
Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie (20th Century-Fox) is a Technicolored cavalcade of small-town Americana as seen as through the eyes of the local barber. Industrious "Professor" Ben Halper (David Wayne) brings his bride Nellie (Jean Peters) to the whistle-stop town of Sevillinois in 1895, and proudly shows her his two-chair parlor. From there on, as the soundtrack resounds to the strain of the title song: 1) Nellie runs off to Chicago with a slick Hardware-Store Owner Hugh Marlowe and dies in a train accident; 2) the shop burns down, and Wayne builds...
...this time Wayne is a doddering septuagenarian, left with only his memories and his granddaughter, little Nellie, who reminds him of his departed wife. And Wayne has shaved just about every whisker in Sevillinois-except those on Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie...
...showing, in part, was attributed to Cunningham's drastic weight reduction (from 3,800 lbs. to 2,800) in his three specials, powered by Chrysler engines. With a year's time for more tinkering and tuning, Cunningham & Co. are now using the Brooklyn Dodger slogan: "Wait 'til next year...
...stay there 'til after vacation...