Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Other items: Oscar the Obscene Octopus, a rubber monstrosity in Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea (formerly Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus}; bigger & better fireworks (free) which depict sinking submarines and battleships, other current news subjects; Battle of Emotions, a spectacle wherein dancing girls test their visual impact on male subjects, whose emotions are scored on electrical lie-detectors (25?); Dancing Campus (all the dancing to name bands that the customers want for 25? apiece); The Op'ry House (beer and mellowdrammer...
...Fighting Britches") Cone; derailed at the last minute was Liberty Publisher Bernarr Macfadden by Townsendite Jerry Carter. Mr. Carter finished second to silent Incumbent Charles Oscar Andrews...
South Dakota. In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt beat Herbert Hoover in South Dakota by 84,000 votes, beat Landon in 1936 by 34,000 votes. In 1938 Republican Harlan J. Bushfield squeakily won the Governorship from Democrat Oscar Fosheim. Last week Governor Bushfield, up for renomination, pulled twice the Democratic total...
...left-handed pitchers, fed them nothing but southpaws (lefties were responsible for nine of their 14 defeats). Still others suggested ennui, overconfidence, the law of averages, and a recent American League ruling that forbids a World Champion club to trade or buy players from rival clubs. But Manager Oscar Vitt of the Cleveland Indians, chuckling over his team's position just behind the league-leading Boston Red Sox, was not entirely surprised by the Yankee collapse. A soothsayer named Tony Characky had predicted to him that Cleveland would put the Indian sign on the Yankees this year...
...face with loose planks. Grant liked tumbling. At 17 he tumbled into Manhattan, found it harder to tumble into vaudeville. So he became a Coney Island barker, did stilt walking, other odd jobs. Later he had a tumbling act of his own, still later played in stock in London. Oscar Hammerstein took Grant back to Manhattan where he worked (for five years at $350 to $550 a week) in Hammerstein musicals and for the Shuberts when they bought up his contract. Soon he was talking shop with, playing the piano for, Richard Rodgers, Moss Hart, Werner Janssen, the Gershwins...