Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked the paraders to disperse. They refused. Then one of the young Communists up front yelled the old revolutionary slogan: "Aux barricades!" Demonstrators grabbed wooden trestles placed along the sidewalks to contain the crowds and laid them across the road. Iron chairs from Fouquet's and other open-air cafes were added. Paving stones were ripped up. Soon a stout barricade was built. The police did not move...
...battle on the Champs Elysees reached its worst phase just before nightfall. A gang of Communists surrounded a police car, tried to set fire to it. The gardes started shooting. Some fired in the air, but one or two shot blindly into the fog. By direct hit or ricochet, four men were wounded. Panic seized the Communists and they fled...
Back in the 1930s when Eleanor Roosevelt first went on the air, her high-pitched, uncertain voice "and the piffling quality of some of her remarks made a field day for mimics. Last week, with the able assistance of her daughter Anna, Mrs. Roosevelt returned to the air with a new program, and a new radio personality. Her first broadcast won raves in the trade-and flustered Washington. Speaking by transcription from Paris, where she is a member of the U.N.'s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, Commentator Roosevelt let fly with some salvos that were notable for both...
...progressive Democrats." In Washington, Democratic Leader J. Howard McGrath gingerly refused to pick up Mrs. Roosevelt's hot potato. Most of the Dixiecrats were discreetly silent. In Manhattan, the trade sheet, Variety, printed a flattering review of the show: " [Mrs. Roosevelt] ranks with the standout commentators on the air ... She displays more courage and is more positive than most of the others put together. The surprising question is why ABC chose to spotlight this commentary [Mon., Wed., Fri., 10:45 a.m.] in a strictly hausfrau-slanted morning segment, rather than at night...
...perfume," printers at the Detroit News last week mixed 40 Ibs. of perfume oil with their printer's ink. The heady scent drifted out of the press room and into editorial and advertising offices, where it lingered lovingly on staffers' clothes and hair. The News ran its air-conditioning system full-blast but the smell hung on for two days. The disenchanted advertising manager grumped: "This newspaper plant smells like a bawdy house. I'm afraid to go home tonight...