Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Jacy and Olive are not making beautiful bedchamber music together. Jacy is a gaga, gee-whiz tourist-about-London: "So this was the London bobby!" . . . " 'I am present.' said Jacy happily, 'at the reopening of the Covent Garden Opera House in nineteen forty-six . . .' " Somewhere along the line, Jacy discovers that the secret of English greatness is "continuity." To do his bit for continuity, Jacy agrees to help the Floristers reopen the historic old family theater with a hands-across-the-sea play about Pocahontas and John Smith...
...Fortunately, Caltech is no mere high-I.Q. trade school. It has a student body capable of perpetrating the most ingenious and energetic pranks since Frank Merriwell pitched his upshoot for Yale. And its facultymen, including Nobel laureates, cut capers and figure eights at the Pasadena ice-skating rink, whiz about the campus in sports cars at velocities somewhat under the speed of sound, raise goldfish, beat out lowdown boogie on a piano or saw a 'cello in a community string quartet. One eminent theoretical physicist turned up, ragged and happy as a native, whacking a percussion instrument...
...Ghee Whiz...
...most cheerful trend of the year produced three whiz-bang musicals. Carmen Jones, which put the U.S. Negro in the Hollywood big time, charged the screen with black lightning; A Star Is Born, the three-hour musical version of 1937's big hit, set Judy Garland back on top of the heap as a musicomedienne; and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a high old roister-doister of a show, in which the legendary rape of the Sabine women, as adapted from Stephen Vincent Benet, was reset (with concessions to the censor) in backwoods Oregon, was larded out with some...
...goals); of pancreatitis; in Boston. Rathborne made unsolicited headlines in 1939 when he and his wife were left dangling 110 ft. in the air for five hours during a breakdown of the parachute jump at New York's World's Fair, returned undaunted the following evening to whiz up and down in 30 seconds...