Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smasher. In stage center, Elizabeth blossomed as she never had in the back row. Reporters called her a natural, and radiomen crooned in delight when, at the end of her first broadcast, she ad-libbed a homey little touch by asking Margaret to say goodnight to the British evacuees abroad. Stage-struck from childhood, and on her own at last, Elizabeth was in her element, even if she did sometimes take her duties too seriously. On one dreadful occasion, when she was invited to review the graduating class at a famous officers' training school, Elizabeth had promptly pointed...
...next step is to try your own advertisement. It must be specific as to your needs, for few apartments have iceboxes or telephones and getting a telephone takes from one to three years. Our ad brought us some leads. The first place we saw was on Avenida Atlantica, hanging right over Copacabana Beach. It was perfect-for midgets. The front room was so small you could light the landlady's cigaret (she sat across the room) without getting up. But size was the least drawback. With the apartment-at $225 a month-went the landlady's grandmother. Grandma...
...Parker-Cramer, and the establishment of E. Gordon Parker '96 had achieved leadership in their field and were busily stuffing College mailboxes with their literature. "Tute school" advertising stressed respectability and the scientific approach. A high-water mark of a sort was reached by Wolff's in a display ad that pictured a cap and gowned senior under the headline, "Diploma by Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff...
Presumably working under the premise that it pays to advertise, an unidentified Cliffedweller inserted an ad reading "Whistlors, Wanted, information leading to an assignation." What results were produced by the notice, she would...
Hall walked on too-to Paris, where he turned art student in the Latin Quarter, lived with a collector of poisonous serpents. His friends lived with far-from-poisonous mistresses, whom they obtained through the Montmartre want-ad columns. Sample ad: "Artist, young, tall, healthy and sincere, seeks feminine friend (18-22), brunette, to chase away cafard (the beetle of loneliness), pretty, well formed, pretty legs, healthy, sincere, pecuniarily disinterested, affectionate; for durable relations; send photograph; professionals keep away...