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...most talked about comedian in the U.S. today is a lithe, 33-year-old mophead named Danny Kaye. Unlike great clowns of the past, he does not wear funny clothes, fall on his prat, throw custard pies or even borrow ancient jokes from Joe Miller. His chief comic assets are a nimble brain and an even nimbler tongue...
Although "summer replacements" should be radio's proving ground for aspiring rookies, the number it has developed into the big time in past years can almost be counted on the paws of a three-toed sloth. Chief summer survivors: lush, busty Songstress Hildegarde, baby-prat tling Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra...
Aboard a yacht in Mobile Bay, Alabama's Adjutant General Ben M. Smith was presented to blue-eyed, blonde Evie Robert, wife of Contractor "Chip" Robert, former New Deal favorite. Courtly General Smith bowed low, took a step backward, prat-fell into the harbor...
...parallel usage, cf. Hamlet, gravedigger scene: "Quite chop-fallen." Webster gives prat, Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, prat or pratt. Example: "We ain't to do nothing . . . but to set down upon our prats...
...major whiskey units where before the War there were hundreds. Where there were only 20 or 30 big importers before, hundreds have now rushed into this highly-specialized field. Schenley has Charles Heidsieck's champagne, ports and sherries from Gonzalez Byass & Co., French wines from Barton & Guestier, Noilly Prat & Cie., French vermouth, Dubonnet and the strong red Brioli Chianti of Casa Vinicola Barone Ricasoli. Most important, it has Bacardi...