Word: trouper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likes to think the secret of his success is "sincerity." It is more probably showmanship. An old trouper, he singles out two or three people in the audience who are obviously sympathetic, and sings directly to them. Says he: "They feel pleased and the feeling spreads...
...limping actor took his wound like a trouper, and last night the show went on with Temple still on his foot...
Like an old trouper, the concierge locked the hotel doors, but the 20 journalists on the job (awakened by inside tipsters) soon got them open and were off in pop-eyed pursuit. Catching word that something was up, two carloads of police screeched up to the clinic, a poor third behind Aly and the press. After that, 20 cops in uniform and plain clothes joined the newsmen in an eight-hour vigil outside the building. Excited Swiss who lived across from the clinic fed the newsmen hot tea. The manager of the Lausanne-Palace Hotel arrived with a milk...