Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sally Rand put an ad in the Lost & Found columns of the Tampa Tribune: "Will the person who took my fan from the Jewel Box please return the same to Max Plattner or me at the Tampa Terrace Hotel. Because of war conditions impossible to purchase more for the duration. Other fans broken beyond repair. These are my tools and I cannot work without same. It is of no value to you as a souvenir. It is irreplaceable to me. Please...
...spiritually ill last night that you can stop, right now, if you want to. . . . In my whole life (I give you my word) I have never seen or heard an actress botch up good lines as badly." Next day, with knightly gallantry, the Theatre Guild ran an ad in the World-Telly headed "Here's to Annabella from 15 Drama Critics." For her performance, the 15 had showered on her such words as "charm," "sparkle," "warmth," "appealing," "delightful," "fresh as a breeze...
...Stands for Ads. What are ads? Movie ads are tempting and alluring advertisements which entice you not to miss the pictures they are advertising, but in spite of which people go to see the pictures anyway. . . . The most gifted ad-writer of them all was Magnum J. Naphtha...
...whom he buys the liquor that is alternately his salvation, his personal devil and his end-all − all these people are seen only from Don Birnam's view; they are important only in so far as they reflect his situation or supply the background for his lyrical ad ventures...
...regards human life as of less value than a monument?" Wrote Poet Sir John Squire, former editor of the London Mercury: "The Reverend Gentleman seems to think that stones are stones and St. Peter's but an organized quarry instead of a crystallization of the human spirit, building ad majorem Dei gloriam. But even in quarries men lose their lives. . . ." The most telling retort was written by one David Naylor: "May I enquire if any of the gentlemen so deeply concerned over the ancient monuments of Rome have an only son whom they are prepared to sacrifice...