Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...allowing its prize package this lapse in physical supremacy, Republic may be taking a grave risk. Previous box-office receipts indicate the country likes him rugged. Possibly as a sop, Republic gives the customers some extra favors. Long-legged Tap Dancer Ann Miller (Too Many Girls) swings through a lively dance routine, croons a torchy ballad. Jimmy Durante garbles his Bronxese with dialogue like: "I resemble dat remark! . . . Dat's libel! . . . It's libel to make...
...suggested here are in practically the same athletic boat as Harvard, facing isolation in a subsidization conscious grid world. Most of these Ivy institutions have respectable endowments and do not have to worry about a new library or the next salaries for professors so they do not need to tap the college football racket for profits and national prominence. What is right for the Ivy colleges is amatour football...
...Jamestown, N. Y., astute Chauncey B. Klinedinst, proprietor of Kliney's restaurant, was trapped in his refrigerator when the door swung shut behind him. His screams were unheard. Benumbed and exasperated, he shrewdly solved the problem of how to summon aid: by shutting off tap lines through which beer flowed...
...Radio's "Mad Russian"), whose accent is as thick as borsch with sour cream. Filling in for Ruby Keeler, who left the company in Chicago when ex-Husband Jolson's ad-libbing got in her hair, neatly turned Eunice Healey steps with precision through a show-stopping tap...
...show of the very best sort, with the same sort of humor--reasonably clean, of course--and the same sort of vaudeville. Unlike the Old Howard, it also displays some beautiful and seductive women. For the rest, however, it consists of the usual acrobats, guitar players, slapstick comics, and tap dancers. The De Marcos come down from the St. Regis and live to do a very nice bit of dancing. A troupe of jugglers awes very efficiently. Jane Pickens is lovely to look at and O.K. for listening, too, except when she teams up with some tenor fellow who flats...