Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey-haired old newsvendor called her papers in the midst of desolation. "Me move?" she said. "I've 'ad this stand for 50 years and it'll take more than a fire to make me give...
...some of them fillies could never lift a foot. Everything, clothes and talk, is loud and cheap and I'm convinced that most of them, if they could get two more people to turn around and look at them, or could get their kisser in another toothpaste ad, a mention by a columnist or their picture in a tab, they'd do it naked...
...Climax ad did better than the county's. Only offer soft-voiced County Treasurer Frank Kendrick received when he opened his auction came by mail from George B. Malott, president of an Indianapolis machine works. The bid: $10. promptly rejected. Malott, who makes a hobby of bidding at tax sales ("to help out local units of government, and, naturally, to make, a little change for myself"), had not known that Colorado law demanded a bid equal at least to the amount of delinquent taxes...
...leading ladies are talented actresses, but their performances might be helped if they would learn their lines. This simple procedure on their part would save the few good gags in the play from being muffed and would obviate the necessity of their ad libbing the finale...
...ad lib faster than I can," gurgled goggle-eyed Eddie Cantor, impressed not only by Harmon's velvety-smooth radio voice but his unshakable poise. The $900 he received for singing and clowning with Cantor promptly classed Harmon as a professional, barred him from continuing to play basketball and baseball at Michigan this spring. But to Tom Harmon it was worth it. From East and West came radio offers (including a fabulous tie-up with Bing Crosby), movie contracts from Warner Brothers and M. G. M., a flood of fan letters (including just the imprint of a girl...