Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thayer S. (4-3-1) 6. Hollis (4-3-1) 7. Weld N. (1-7-0) 8. Mass. (0-8-0) 9. Stought. (0-8-0) American League 1. Grays (9-0-0) 2. Matt. S.(8-1-0) 3. Str'us N. (6-3-0) 4. Wig. W. (4-5-0) 5. Dudley (3-6-0) 7. Th'r N. (3-6-0) 6. Lionel (3-6-0) 8. Mower (3-6-0) 9. Th'r. M. (1-8-0) 10. Weld...
...pranks and scrapes of the four little Fitzgeralds could be cut up into two-reelers for Our Gang comedies. One of the funniest has the brothers hooking their grandmother's wig with a fishing line to prove to the neighborhood small fry that she has been scalped by the Indians. The final episode in the book is funny, pathetic and brave. On his dying day Papa put on his boots and Mama would not let the attending doctor take them off because Papa always "wanted to die with his boots on." It's things like that that give...
...monocle. Harper's Bazaar publishes Garvey's picture with his Matisse eye, and soon half the intelligentsia are playing poker with trompe-l'oeil chips. The neat little spoof suggests that Bradbury would do very well if he came out from under that fright wig...
...collection of dry skits and songs which should leave even the most devout Anglophile gasping for more vermouth. The fraction of the show I understood was very funny, and Miss Binnie Hale's impressions of other actresses broke through the language barrier. With filmy dress and yellow sausage wig, Miss Hale succeeds in making even Marlene a little ludicrous...
Much of the credit for the triumph must be given to actor Alastair Sim, who plays the double role of the Head-mistress and her gambler brother. Sim is better in the feminine half of his part, for which he assumes a towering wig, a hoarse whisper, and just the right mixture of cowardice and heroism. Joyce Grenfell is almost as funny in her role of a policewoman who looks very much like a horse but walks like an ape. As for the dozen or so of the Bells themselves, they are less expert, but on the whole quite monstrous...