Word: struts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From her position in the wings, Secretary Moir has seen Winnie strut the stage with nothing but a towel about his middle. She has heard him bawl for his mail, his secretary and a scotch & soda all in one breath. She tells of how he took up painting to assuage the bitterness that followed Gallipoli, how in his younger years he had stage-door-johnnied Ethel Barrymore (with little success). But though she is sometimes astute about her idol ("He is 'over-engined' for peace perhaps but perfectly engined, I think, for war"), Winston Churchill remains for Phyllis...
...Goodman poaching on the Society's preserves. His improvisations were never written by anybody, and most of the tunes he uses are of his own non-ASCAP concoction. Since his band plays better when jitterbugs jig, WJZ provided space for the more delirious members of the audience to strut their stuff. Feature of each broadcast is incidental jazz shop talk by Maestro Goodman, retailing in the self-conscious argot of swing the doings of various other popular musical heroes. Sample chatter...
This year's Smoker Committee will not have to strut much stuff to outdistance last year's which caused a nearriot by announcing the appearance of Ann Sherldan at the gathering and then showing a monkey by the same name...
...hedge so carefully. Raw aluminum is just the starter: the basic metal must be alloyed, then shaped into different sheets, forgings, castings, etc. for each of aluminum's thousand-&-one uses. Aluminum Co. of America thus may have to supply one kind of tubing for an airplane wing strut, another for the landing gear, yet another for the rudder. Up to now the company has borne this cross with profit and equanimity, has also managed to retain its corner on most of the preliminary fabrication...
...Night at Earl Carroll's (Paramount) concerns operations at Showman Earl Carroll's pale green "theatre restaurant" on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. There is unconsciously aimless comedy by Ken Murray and others, and the Earl Carroll chorus girls strut stiffly about the stage in irrelevant maneuvers involving immense fans and Christmas-tree headgear...