Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the massing of local talent which proved so successful at last summer's similar affair, Entertainment Chairman Hugh Hadley's committee has arranged for Miss Pickens, currently appearing at the Copley Plaza's Oval Room, o add the extra touch of glamour appropriate for the Naval ROTC's send-off to its numerous members about to be commissioned...
Permit me to add that I have always admired TIME's diction, especially the use of epithets which help to picture people for us. Maybe it is a coincidence, maybe it is due to a background of classical training in your editors: the language of this most modern of magazines often reminds me of Homer...
...comedy in a Manhattan nightclub. His triumph in eight weeks at the Copacabana enraptured his friends and customers, who saw a great clown resume mastery of his profession. He was, in his own tongue, "colossial." His take ($2,750 weekly from radio, $3,500 more from the nightclub) helped add up to his best fiscal year-about $250,000. He moved into his old suite at the Astor (No. 472) with Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, for a quarter of a century his drummer, hat buyer, trainer, secretary, valet, friend-and Mr. Umbriago...
Synthetics meet all specifications of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. It calls them "a tremendous improvement," but not the equal of prewar balls. Players who have tried them add another caution: like all tennis balls before them, these have the same tendency...
...beginning Hobby had confidently proclaimed: "Women will come marching -shoulder to shoulder-to serve their country. ... I predict that all America will be proud of them." Last week she said pensively: "I don't think it is so strange that there are no more women in uniform. Add up all the services, WACs, WAVES, SPARS, Marines and the various nursing corps and you get a sizable number of women who volunteered. I don't think it's a bad figure...