Word: tuxedoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adapt and translate the librettos into the language Joe speaks-English . . ." Billy complained that when the average European goes to the opera, he feels that he's going to the theater, "but when Joe Citizen in this country is shoehorned into a tuxedo, he feels that he's going to a concert. Joe isn't interested in the plot because he doesn't know what the plot is all about, and the stilted jabberwocky in the printed libretto only confuses him further...
...Tuxedo renting agencies also report serious inroads on their supplies...
...Reverend Gil Dodds* bolted straightaway into the lead. Their Iron Deacon, the greatest miler the U.S. ever produced, usually waits a lap or two before showing his heels. As he sped around the board track, his arms flailing like windmills, Dodds heard a heavy-set man in a tuxedo chanting out the time to him: "Twenty-point-five . . . twenty-two," and he knew he was running well...
...with violins, violas, a cello and a French horn, as Miller had planned. Two of the same arrangers were making the band sound the old way (Tex is no good at arranging). It was easy because 19 of Miller's oldtimers were still there. Such jump pieces as Tuxedo Junction and Little Brown Jug, which the band played more to amuse itself than the customers, had changed a little, but the boys still did the corny hat-throwing stunts that had drawn Miller fans around the bandstand. Said Tex: "It's corny, but Glenn was one for commercial...
George Sommarips, Jr., of Tuxedo Park, New York, and a graduate of Milton Academy, Milton Mass...