Word: adee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Union members, allowed to tour their building in groups of ten or 15 (except for first-floor visits to pay dues, basement trips to bowl), see a façade of marble and glass brick, electric eyes to signal fouls by bowlers, a cocktail lounge with mahogany bar and deeply cushioned leather seats-a colossus of chrome and indirect lighting. Total cost...
Pacific Seas. Clinton's second cafeteria is the Pacific Seas. He and his wife selected tropical materials for it in Hawaii last fall. Its giant bamboo came from Formosa. Its façade has a 15-foot waterfall; inside is a goldfish-filled brook. Fantastic lights combine plastic and neon flowers. Many Californians think it's grand...
...brave deeds along the front and behind both lines-farmers weeping with outraged peasant piety as they destroy their crops; the obscure, invaluable labors of guerrilla warriors and of the ten million who form the labor battalions of the People's Army; the structure and façade of an entire people at war. Tank, infantry, sea and air engagements, if as consistently heroic as here reported, would have backed the Nazis off the Atlantic coast long ago. Gummy on every page with the fancy frosting of party journalists, The Voice of Fighting Russia is a sort of mirror...
Chicago-born, F. P. A. started out as an insurance salesman, switched to newspapering as a result of selling George Ade a fire insurance policy. F. P. A.'s chief equipment was a knowledge of Gilbert & Sullivan, a ready wit, a talent for drawing out other wits' talents gratis. When the Herald Tribune wanted to cut his pay (1937), he walked out, commenting: "They just wanted me to work for less money, whereas I wanted to work for more...
Composer Walton has lived with the celebrated, long-faced Sitwell family; to Sister Edith's verses he wrote Faç;ade, his best-known, though least profound, orchestral work. Driving an ambulance, which William Walton has been doing for more than a year, kept him from hearing the world premiere of his violin concerto, written for Jascha Heifetz and played in Cleveland in December 1939. Fortnight ago, his job kept him from another first performance: his Scapino, a Comedy Overture, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony as part of its 50th-anniversary celebration...