Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the scene of a eugenics experiment, and the hotel manager's counterscheme of supplying, as material for the experiment, young people capable of putting on entertainments that will attract paying guests-are a series of acts which show what has become of old-fashioned vaudeville. Samples: Gracie Allen. George Burns and Ben Blue dancing the minuet; Martha Raye stretching her monstrous mouth; Jack Benny in a burlesque version of Love in Bloom; Marsha Hunt and Leif Erikson singing to each other...
...Representative Fish blurted: "If you want me to tell the whole truth I will, and it will be 100% worse than what I've said. The Republican Party itself inspired the sending out of vicious attacks on Social Security in pay envelopes. Why. I have letters from William Allen White and other liberals denouncing this practice in such language that I could not use it before this assembly...
...resulting Dictionary is handsomer than its British sister, far freer and less formal in style. The first is owing to Publisher Charles Scribner Sr., the second to the Dictionary's original editor, Historian Allen Johnson, both of whom died in time to fit into their proper volumes. It contains fewer biographies (13,633) by more contributors (2,243). Originally Editor Johnson decided to set a limit of 10,000 words to each biography, but that was exceeded in five instances: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson...
...radio technique was made by Ohio State Uni-versity which since 1928 has had a workshop for radio broadcasting. Last week the Conference had news of a novel organization called University Broadcasting Council. Set up in Chicago two years ago by the University of Chicago's Radio Director Allen Miller, the Council helps educators from Chicago, Northwestern and DePaul universities not only to solicit radio time and to split the expenses of broadcasting but also to write good scripts. With a $55,000 budget, Director Miller reported, the Council had provided its members with $300,000 worth of broadcasting...
Those probably making the trip will be: George Ford, Austin Harding, Ralph Pope, Fred deRham, Joe Patrick, Leo Ecker, Sam Callaway, Russ Allen, Gene Emerson, Traf Hicks, Charlie Bellows, Charlie Houghton, Win Jameson, Pete Stone, Max Talbot, George Roberts. Johnny Mechem, Ned Cutter, George Mahoney, and Nort Kidder...