Word: twirling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reached Broadway last year, I was interested to find what had improved with a second showing and what waned. Miss Lillie, of course, improved. She has supplemented almost all of her routines with additional business, such as the swinging pearls in the Pittsburgh choral song (to watch her twirl them is worth the price of admission alone), and the Teutonic accents in the satire on the Hollywood-Chopin romances...
...credit, Freddie Ayer has become Britain's most discussed younger philosopher, the chief apostle of a school which its followers call "Logical Positivism." Freddie Ayer himself is a man who hates to get up in the morning and finds writing philosophy agony ("I smoke cigarette after cigarette, twirl my watch chain, and all that sort of thing"). The son of a small businessman, he made his way on scholarships through Eton ("I wasn't awfully happy there") and Oxford ("The people were much cleverer than one"). He stayed on at Oxford as a lecturer, then (at 34) Fellow...
...between now and the beginning of the season, he is expected to better the present record by at least ten feet. When Sam Felton, second ranking weightman, who placed third, right behind Fisher in the indoor IC4A 35-pound weight event, came here last fall from Dartmouth, he could twirl the hammer 150 feet. Then assistant coach Ed Flanagan took over and "showed me what was wrong." Within four days, Felton was throwing 167 feet. Phil Zeigler completes the Varsity hammer group...
...years Lewis left Rector's with a reputation for the musical clowning that has remained his stock in trade for a generation. It was on the curb outside Rector's that he acquired the battered, furry top hat which W. C. Fields later taught him to twirl with uncanny virtuosity. Lewis won it in a crap game from the driver of a hansom...
Freshmen will get their first chance to talk into microphones and to twirl dials on technical radio apparatus when the Crimson Network opens its doors at 31 Holyoke Street and starts its last try-out period of the summer at 7:15 o'clock this evening...