Word: totted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warner Le Roy, 22, son of Veteran Producer-Director Mervyn (Random Harvest, Quo Vadis) Le Roy, last year took over a movie theater on Manhattan's First Avenue, remodeled it, presented Tennessee Williams' long-running Garden District. ¶ Anthony Perkins, 26, was a tot of five when his father, Broadway Matinee Idol Osgood Perkins, died. The versatile father's big reputation dragged the shy son into his own career, which now stands up solidly by itself with the Broadway triumph of Look Homeward, Angel and Hollywood stardom in Fear Strikes Out and Desire Under the Elms...
...this instrument at the age of three, pleading for the piano, he gave her what she wanted. The very next morning he woke her at six, trotted her without breakfast to the piano, and her ordeal began. All day long, the metronome clicking back and forth, he taught the tot to play scales in time. It was not easy. "Father never gave up. He knew exactly how to handle the situation. Every time I made a mistake, he leaned over and, very methodically, without a word, slapped me across the face...
Little Benjamin Thurlow Ballou is as sweet as a cluster of lollipops. Though he is only three years old, Benjy is the best little tot in Smiles, Pa., and he always does just what his Mummy tells him. In the morning he puts on his little pink shoes and his little pink sugarplum bathrobe all by himself, and at night he puts his cute little toys neatly away in his playbox. All this makes Benjy feel "toasty-warm all over." and he can't help snuggling up to his mother and saying, "I'm gwad you my Mummy...
...tot up more than 90 million ballots, some of which were still trickling in from the hills by muleback, would take India's election committees at least two weeks. But already Jawaharlal Nehru's Congress Party was clearly on its way to a landslide victory. In his own constituency near Allahabad, Nehru ran nearly 200,000 votes ahead of his opponent, an anti-cow-slaughter candidate whose program the pandit dismissed with the brief comment: "I like horses as much as cows...
...Liberace, inseparable brother of schmalz Pianist Wladzui Valentino Liberace, strolled through the Chicago night, two thugs pulled up alongside in a maroon convertible, hopped out and accosted him. One growled: "Give us everything you have!" George politely declined, was slugged with a pistol, soon roused from a fog to tot up his losses: $50 in cash, a $1,500 onyx and diamond ring, a $25,000 fiddle (the violin was located, along with two prime suspects, at week...