Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very good humor now, smiling at me, smiling aside at Bulganin, talking fast as if he had the answer ready. Laughs, looking at me. Snap, snap...
...Someone in press behind says "attaboy." Nikita is talking to me, also sort of for benefit of Bulganin, who is leaning in, enjoying it all. We are all pushed together close. Nikita's eyes all crinkled up, he looks like real happy peasant. Holds hand up in protest. Snap, snap...
Finney, after taking the snap from center, moved out to his right along the line of scrimmage, keeping the ball until actually in the process of being tackled by Crimson left end Hal Keohane. He then lateraled off to left-halfback McTigue, who had been trailing the play. A timely block took care of one potential Crimson tackler, and McTigue eluded another with a dramatic leap into the air. All-in-all the play covered 47 yards...
...movies: "One white guy always managed to kill off a bunch of Indians. They should try hiring some of us sometime so we can show them how real Indians act. I was in a bit part once in an Alan Ladd picture. I got bumped off just like [finger-snap] that...
...tunes whistled afterwards in the lobby. A show so lightly strummed, so insouciantly strutted, so frilled and beflowered needs to be stylish. Jack Cole's pictorial dances, Oliver Smith's airy sets. Miles White's gorgeous costumes give it style. If it has almost no Broadway snap, it has even less Broadway brassiness. If this is a Jamaica with little ginger and no rum, those, after all, are largely its exports. From at least a musicomedy standpoint, Lena Horne, gay colors, winning tunes-and even shiftless lie-in-the-sun librettos-are its tourist attractions...