Word: inched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...text of The Little Foxes that Regina has altered: the storyline scarcely varies an inch. It is the tone. With its sharp claws and ruthless clawing, its treacherous wiles and wheelchair theatrics, The Little Foxes might have yielded something inordinately operatic. But though his big scenes are sometimes florid enough, Composer Blitzstein's version of the Alabama Hubbards is fundamentally comic. Regina much less suggests a social critic excoriating an emerging class of plunderers than a first-rate showman exhibiting a prize assortment of hellions. Blitzstein's Hubbards cavort the whole time they conspire, and the general effect...
...night last week, an audience that overflowed into every inch of standing-room space in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House listened breathlessly as the great gold curtain closed to the last romantic bars of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. As the footlights went up and the curtain parted again, a roar of applause rose to the Met's gilded ceiling. Time after time, panting dancers took their bows, then skipped gracefully out of view. When at last a slender and dark-haired little ballerina appeared alone, the audience rose to its feet and cheered...
Before the youngster is given his toy, he is asked to estimate its size by pulling a metal rod out of the cylinder right before him. In almost all cases the child guesses the toy to be a bit larger than its three-inch length...
Deacon scoring honors went to sophomore John Tangen who went over twice in the fourth period on end sweeps. Frank Nolan scored from the one-inch line, and fullback Tom Lamb went across from the ten after a deceptive fake to the wingback. Fullback Jim Dumas, who previously has been billed in the CRIMSON as Murray Pearlstein, did most of the ball carrying for the Funsters...
...plugged in his Loewy-designed Schick electric razor, used a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste he had modeled for Pepsodent, tore off the wrapper he had designed for Lux soap. Even the expensively tailored grey suit he put on was his own snugly fitting creation. Its special feature: inch-and-a-half cuffs on the sleeves, which could be replaced when frayed (a designer's fray quickly...