Word: zaniest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backwoods as not to know that a sergeant is a recruit's natural enemy, Will all but kills his own sergeant with kindness. He all but gives the Air Force psychiatrist ulcers through his unshatterable normality. In time he sets forth with one of the zaniest of crews on one of the most demented of flights. Only after that-and perhaps only by comparison-does the play itself seem earthbound...
...world's zaniest musician, pun-loving, Danish-born Pianist Victor Borge, showed no signs of flagging as he prepared to play his way this week into the second year's run of his one-man Broadway hit show, Comedy in Music. Borge's witty (and programless) keyboard romp has pleasantly parted 230,400 customers from some $775,000 of their money, has outdistanced all long-run records for one-performer Broadway offerings...
...Spare the Leaf Mold . . ." But Teacher Peepers is at his timid zaniest when he goes to the classroom. In his special lecture, "Wake Up Your Sluggish Soil" (published originally in Petal & Stem), he concludes: "Spare the leaf mold, spoil the hepatica. Remember, your dirt is the restaurant where your flowers dine." To his students' questions he replies with thoughtful absurdities: "Yes, I think tonsils are useful to some people"; "No, I don't think we know just how fast a dinosaur...
...some Americans, the name Marx summons up a bearded prophet of social doom, but to most it means a zany tumble of brothers. Groucho is the zaniest and most durable of the lot. In his long career as a comedian, he has met and mastered three mediums: movies, radio and now television...