Word: deckers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Triple Decker. Paris shows "open" on three successive nights. The first night is a dress-and dressmakers'-rehearsal. The invited audience is made up of important couturiers, stage designers, technicians, anyone who has contributed a necklace or a knickknack.* The performance is halted to smooth out wrinkles in the costumes, or (often at the most exciting moments) to take publicity shots...
...cousin, Sammy Colt, 36, so she, Diana, gave Tierney what-for, as he stood there with his shirt off, "like Tarzan." And furthermore, she said: "You dreary, dreadful actor, if you want to fight, hit me." Then she slapped his face eight times. The party, given by Artist John Decker, climaxed in six simultaneous fist fights, but nobody but Jack LaRue lost enough blood to be worth bothering about...
Phew! In Stockbridge, Mass., Mrs. John F. Decker argued that no woman should be expected to put up with a man who kept six skunks in the coalbin. She got the divorce...
Passengers who knew the route sat up front to tell the soldier-drivers where to go. Even so, many a bus went wrong-way through one-way streets, opened new routes on virgin streets, got thoroughly lost. In East London an errant double-decker tried to squeeze under a low bridge, sliced its top off (nobody was riding on top). The driver, long weary of inaction, surveyed the wreckage with a blissful smile...
...late John Barrymore's pet dachshund, Gus, ran in front of a car in Hollywood and was killed. Explained the late Great Profile's friend, Painter John Decker, the dachshund's stepmaster: for the first time in years a certain part in an operatic revival had gone to another dog, and Gus, a born ham, had taken the only alternative...