Word: touts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are almost as many loony properties on the stage as in Hellzapoppin. Least loony is the horse. Trilby, which appears in person. Ezra Stone makes the scientifical cousin almost as objectionable as his family thinks he is. Lou Lubin is hilarious as a tough little race-track tout. At times the play promises to develop a surrealist edge and wit. It never keeps its promise...
...zippy theme song like Landon's Oh! Susanna or Roosevelt's Happy Days Are Here Again rocked Philadelphia's vast, egg-shaped Convention Hall. Slogans were as uninspiring as the candidates they sought to tout-slogans like "Trust-in-Taft," "A Top Scholar-Taft," "Do It With Dewey," "Gannett-America's Best Bet," and Vandenberg's labels on yellow fans, which came in handy in the hot Convention Hall-"Fan with...
...Tout est plus doux...
...vous tout de vey a vous, cherie...
...tune, like 1937's Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (TIME, Dec. 27, 1937), sounded unmistakably, dumpily Yiddish. Sure enough, after long investigation the song's publishers (Sing Song Music Corp.) finally admitted that A vous tout de vey was only so much French dressing. A Bronxier way of spelling: Avu tut dir vey. Meaning: "Where does it hurt...