Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more levity when it comes to religion, intelligence tests, foreign accents and insanity . . . Bad taste. Why, the great tradition of American humor is built upon 'bad taste,' if you want to call it that. The humorist works with material from life, not a Hollywood-soap-opera version...
Aboard the Queen Mary, bound for England and a summer of television work, Actress Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) refused to give photographers a cheesecake pose, instead favored them with a winning smile and a ladylike version of the traditional ship's-rail picture...
...facts of his life had been so liberally larded with fiction, frequently with his aid and consent, that the history of Mike Romanoff had solidified into an almost impenetrable legend. Although U.S. immigration authorities and some friends insist he is not an American, the most persistently recurring version of his background is that he was born Harry F. Gerguson in Brooklyn some time before the turn of the century, that he escaped from six successive orphanages, that he was farmed out to various individuals who tried to straighten him out, that he once worked in London, that he often landed...
Over the years, by his writings and his lecture-room teaching Dewey drummed his philosophy of growth into two generations of Americans, and for millions the popular version of his doctrine became, and is, the one true gospel. But for many others, some of them disillusioned disciples, his sole achievement was that in trying to light the way he merely succeeded in putting out the stars...
...connoisseur was Orson Welles, who called her "the most exciting woman in the world," cast her as Helen of Troy in a Paris production of his own version of Faust. The show traveled to Germany as An Evening with Orson Welles, was soon being dubbed "an evening with Eartha Kitt." Last year she even got a letter from Winston Churchill. She was singing...