Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Jean Abel Gros (pronounced grow) first saw the famed pre-Christmas parade of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. 13 years ago, he got an idea. A showman with a small boy's taste for shows, Jean Gros, 54, had spent years building up a marionette road-show business. He had lost it all staging a grand opera with puppets (75 singers were hidden behind the curtain). He decided that if he could get huge balloon figures like Macy's, and somehow design them to fit under trolley wires, he could stage such parades...
Until 1946 (he died of coronary thrombosis four months ago, the day the proofs of his book came from the printer), Elmer Lincoln Irey was coordinator of all Treasury law-enforcement units. He wasn't a lawyer, he wasn't a detective, and he wasn't physically tough. But he had a genius for ferreting out the sources of gangsters' income and jailing crooks for tax evasion. Elmer Irey and his T-men put the finger on such arrogant law-flout-ers as Al Capone, "Nucky" Johnson, Moe Annenberg and Tom Pendergast...
...diet of this type of novel, I find the very mention of 'historical romance' leaves me cold and uninterested. I believe that even a good thing can be overdone." Did the million and more members of the Literary Guild feel the way Miss Mussi did? A year ago, when guild editors polled their members, 75% said they were eager for most costume-built novels. Now, the Guild confessed nervously, a good many members seem to be agreeing with Miss Mussi...
Picou, a lean, olive-skinned boy with huge hands, showed up at Bowie race track two weeks ago and booted home twelve winners the first six days. People began betting on him rather than on the horses he rode. One Baltimore paper carried a special box, listing Picou's mounts for the day. By last week he had become so well known that the New York Daily Mirror headlined: "YOU KNOW WHO" WINS...
Owls are supposed to be the wisest of birds, and the one who took up residence in a Yard treetop over a week ago must be having a good sagacious laugh. No example of the species Scotiaptex Nebulosa, or for that matter no example of any predatory bird, has even had much real affection for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. But now, the ASPCA is patting this owl's sharp beak reassuringly and mumbling something about "God's Law." Any owl worthy of his feathers must appreciate the joke...