Word: blooded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brassiere equipped with fireworks that would shoot off sparks at the end of her Dance of the Seven Veils; also to have a flying hippopotamus zooming over the stage for added effect. Both schemes were regretfully rejected as impractical, along with a plan to flood the stage with blood and have John the Baptist's head float on it. Even so, predicted Designer Dali when they were finished: "Those who protest will protest loudly, but those who like it will become delirious." Last week when Londoners finally got in on the act, some found what remained of Dali...
...written a play that lacks only a soaring bat flapping about the stage. Be it understood that there is nothing wrong in that. If a playwright can arrange to have unknown hands reach out from doors, a Big Ben-like clock strike off-stage at tense moments, and blood trickle over door sills,--if he can work all of these (and more, as in this case) into his script without causing his audience to titter at the overlarding, then hooray...
...B.F.S.S. it was inadvisable to cooperate in the making of this film." Dejected, the moviemakers returned to London. "We hope that somewhere," wrote Messrs. Powell and Pressburger to the Times last week, "there is a Master of Foxhounds with a mind of his own and enough sporting blood to help us finish this film...
When a fan heckled him as he skated close to the boards, Kenny unhesitatingly conked him on the head with a hockey stick. As the blood streamed, another spectator jumped onto the ice fighting mad but was lugged back before he reached Reardon. Other angry fans pressed against the low chicken-wire fence, and Canadiens Right Wing Leo Gravelle got into the act. He swung his stick and flayed three of the nearest spectators. It was 20 minutes before play could be resumed...
...financial centers of the world last week, the gold fever spread like the blood-tingling news of a rich new strike. Day after day on the New York Stock Exchange, the cheap stock of a Philippine gold-mining company, Benguet Consolidated Mining Co., was among the heaviest traded. Wall Street's Bache & Co. was busily selling unrefined gold (the only kind that can be legally held in the U.S.) at premium prices ($44 an ounce). In London, South African gold-mining stocks were ones eagerly bought in a falling market...