Word: alfresco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, at an alfresco press conference, he refused comment about the Southern revolt. Did he want to talk about his own candidacy? The President said he had been too darned busy to think about it. He joined in the laughter which followed...
Young Henry Ford gave a big business lunch last week. The lunch was alfresco, at his onetime summer home at Deer Lake Farms, near Detroit. Under tents, Young Henry and 300 guests quaffed beer and cocktails, munched cold meats and salad, buffet-style, then watched a new Ford tractor plow the hard clay of the field outside. Said Young Henry, introducing his latest product: "Since the days of my grandfather ... we have always had one foot in the soil, and one foot in industry. We will continue that policy...
...Alfresco Freelancers. Many G.I.s still fraternize with roten imbai ("open-air prostitutes"), as the Japanese call streetwalkers. Hence the sudden union activity of the house girls...
...indoor concerts, honking horns, backfire, the drone of airplanes, the crash of thunder and squirpling crickets are to summer concerts. Most audiences and musicians have learned to take such incidental orchestration in their stride. But at Vancouver B.C.'s open-air pavilion, Baritone John Charles Thomas encountered one alfresco sound too many-a persistent bullfrog in a nearby pond. Every time Baritone Thomas began to sing, the bullfrog answered. Thomas hit a low note, the bullfrog followed him. At last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next song, a beater was delegated to quell...
...correct some of their mistakes, Professor Morison decided to apply the alfresco, learn-by-doing methods that Francis Parkman used for his History of France in the New World. In the summer of 1939 Morison and some friends bought the barkentine, Capitana, which was "near enough to Columbus' larger ships in rig and burthen to enable us to cross the ocean under conditions very similar to those of his day. . . ." In the Capitana they explored the European end of Columbus' routes, then headed back across the Atlantic. "Our crossing from Gomera to Trinidad was approximately on the route...