Word: alee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong Tuesday nights when Announcer Milton Cross trumpets this familiar radio reveille. For Information Please, the quiz program that plays experts for fall guys, has been capital, dependable, adult radio fun for a year and a half, since last November courtesy of Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc. Its fast-cracking experts
...illustrator. His masterpiece was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. (Said Mark Twain: "It was a lucky day I went netting for lightning bugs and caught a meteor.") His drawings of monks swigging ale got him boycotted for nearly ten years by most big magazines. Another time he was made to put shoes on Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, prohibited from drawing cows with udders...
Divorced. Ken Maynard, 44, slick-haired film cowboy, and Mary Leper Maynard, 40, originator of Hollywood's drunk service; in Hollywood. Grounds: incompatibility. Her discreet, ginger-ale drinking "Cavaliers" will, for a fee, accompany a client on an alcoholic evening, insure...
Recuperating from an appendectomy at the age of 19, Linnea Fransson of East Orange, N. J. was told by the doctor to eat what she liked. What she liked was candy, lemonade, ginger ale. She ate nothing else. She left business school, retreated to her home, sucked lollipops to her heart's content. When she began suffering from starvation, doctors at Orange Memorial Hospital tried in vain to give Linnea tube feedings and intravenous injections. For a while they persuaded her to eat an apple a day, and half a teaspoonful of raw, grated vegetables. But anything besides...
...leisurely, mild-mannered King N'jiké II gave up his own house to the visitor and retired with his 80-odd wives to the other end of the village. Author Egerton interviewed fortunetellers and sorcerers, attended dances, investigated charms, drank palm wine (it tasted like flat ginger ale), picked up stray bits of local lore. Sample: as fee, a Bangangté midwife is given the bananas on the tree where she has hung the sliver of bamboo used in cutting the navel cord...