Word: alee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Later in the evening with a tray full of glasses, water, ginger ale and bottles, one of our men going into the big library slipped and dropped the entire tray on the floor. And, as a final catastrophe, on Sunday afternoon my husband, moving backward across the grass by the swimming pool, almost sat on another tray of glasses and pop bottles...
...benignly sly old Canon of an Irish village has become paralyzed, and a younger man, Father Shaughnessy, comes to take over the Canon's duties. Glacial, snooping, bullying, Shaughnessy, like the Clown in Twelfth Night, thinks that because he is virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale...
Developed by NBC as a sustaining program, Information Please long attracted no sponsor because agencies thought it appealed to an intellectual, and therefore limited, audience. But last week, at last, the program had a taker-Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc. for a reported $2,500 per week. Canada Dry, which once sponsored Jack Benny but has not been on a network for nearly seven years, bought Information Please because it has a fairly large and very vociferous "quality" audience. Its attractions...
...would concoct novel advertising schemes, take his propositions to prospective clients. Soon his company, Douglas Leigh, Inc., became famous for such dis plays as its Kool cigarets penguin who winked 3,000 times an hour, its A. & P. coffeepot that emitted actual steam, and its Ballantine's Beer & Ale clown who pitched quoits. In five years the company has erected $1,000,000 worth of electric signs around Times Square, its assets have ballooned to $500,000, and its 28-year-old Alabama-born president has been dubbed the "Sign King of Broadway...
...order to tip the scales at the required 136 Ib. (welterweight minimum) for last week's fight, Armstrong, whose normal weight is 130, quaffed a mixture of ale and stout, wolfed a big breakfast before weighing in. When the fight was postponed from its original date because of rain, he was not required to scale 136 again...