Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peak) that turned out everything from costume designs for circus elephants to General Motors' famed Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair. Geddes also designed more than 200 musical comedies, operas, and straight dramatic productions, and produced some first-rate hits (e.g., Dead End). The overhead ($884,000 a year) and high blood pressure forced him to shut up shop in 1946, and later take to his bed for six months. When he got up, he started again (at 55) with a staff of twelve-and bigger ideas than ever before...
...Beirut, neon signs glared garishly before such nightspots as Maxim's, Harry's Bar and the tinseled Kit Kat Club, where a burnished blonde from Budapest chanted defiantly: "Bingle, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go." In the black sky overhead, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse and Rigel blazed as brightly as they had centuries before when Arab herdsmen first gave them their names...
...meal's end the general escorted us to our hut, apologizing again for the rough quarters. Through the bright moonlight Chinese air force planes droned continuously overhead, some with bombs which dropped with a heavy concussion, some with supplies to be parachuted to encircled General Huang. Artillery, which was dug in behind the village, kept up an intermittent fire-first came the muzzle blast, then the scream of the shell overhead, then a distant crunch as the shell exploded...
...right to pass on the hiring of the play's directors, players, company manager, stage manager, pressagent and costumer. One clause commits the management to give her footlights, which have been going out of fashion on the New York stage. Tallulah insists on them because they offset overhead lights that throw unflattering shadows...
...then later in September they played a full game in the Stadium. About that time, I was getting ready to kiss off the Provincetown blonde. There was no capacity crowd watching, them that particular day. Overhead, grey clouds turned black near the end of the first period. I wish I could tell you more about how they kept on playing for three more periods when electric lights were going out in Boston. But then I'd have to tell you how Bill Henry, a guy who kept statistics at last year's Yale game, showed the stuff that made...