Word: zipping
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...last fall, will be favored again to be up among the leaders, with Wagner's crew looked for to push the Californian to the limit. Ewing Walker, Sam Goddard, and Bob Fowler form the nucleus of Anderson's eight, while Captain Shem Gray and Bruce Pirnie give the added zip to Wagner's boatload. Everett Henry, Brown, 3rd, will weigh down the stern of the Anderson octet...
...after being succeeded by General Maxime Weygand, was the most active of all. Rumor had had him executed, dead by suicide or fleeing the country to save his skin. Actually he had been tending the rose garden at his home near Paris and showed up to give a certain zip to the dullness of the chateau's life. Briskly he did daily setting-up exercises, snappily returned the salutes he rates from the soldiers who guard...
...what ailed his latest production. He and Moss Hart acquired an A-1 cast for their play; John Root's setting was flawless; the audience was willing, nay, anxious to be amused; and yet the play failed to click. "George Washington Slept Here" has none of the zip and sparkle of its predecessor, "The Man Who Came to Dinner," which opened here in Boston exactly 365 days before. Both are Kaufman-Hart comedies, but there unfortunately the resemblance ends--last year the two authors had a terrific hit, this year they have nothing more than a headache...
...rambles along exhaustively and exhaustingly, petering out into a banal love affair between Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell. By the time the sea gulls appear to save the Mormons' crops, the senses of the audience are dulled into unresponsive drowsiness. There is too much DcMillcan grandeur, too little DcMillcan zip. "Brigham Young" starts out as a fairly interesting document, but loses most by its entertainment value through its exasperating length and its unforgiveable failure to picture polygamy in more detail...
Their fear and wrath at the Government abated by the promise of more zip in armament preparations, Canadians were not long in finding other sources of irritation. Royal Canadian Mounted Police in No-mining, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, cracked down on the Fascist National Unity Party. In a wholesale roundup they seized Führer Adrien Arcand, seven other officials, six truckloads of pamphlets, gold-braided uniforms, membership lists. In court, wispy-mustached Newspaperman Arcand was held without bail for hearing this week...