Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, too, someone else said we had four traffic lights . . . two more lights than we had autos! . . . Fred Allen made a crack about the tall grass that was flourishing in front of the Regent Theater...
...LITTLE MAGAZINE: A History and a Bibliography (440 pp.)-Frederick J. Hoffman, Charles Allen & Carolyn F. UI rich - Princeton University Press...
Xavier Cugat, king of the rumba, was legally serenaded by Manhattan's Town & Travel Wear, Ltd. The dress shop said that Cugat (who has been sued for a separation by his wife of 16 years) okayed "anything in the house" for Actress Lorraine Allen-whereupon Miss Allen brooded for two hours, then settled on something in taffeta with an off-the-shoulder effect. The shop ran it up, to order, and then Cugat sent it back. What the shop wants: $297.95, in jigtime...
With the help of a nephew and employe, E. Allen Lustig, and his chief bookkeeper Joseph Sobel, Longchamps' had kept two sets of books, one for Henry, one for Uncle Sam. Profits on which taxes were paid were determined by avarice, not earnings. Fictitious expenses were put down; the bulk of the tips to hat-check girls ($5,000 a month) was pocketed by Lustig and not reported. Lustig's house hold expenses (and race horses) were charged up to corporation expenses; $18,142 went to a decorator, $913 for Mrs. Lustig's modes...
...best and littlest magazines, Horizon, has kept going in London through all the blitzes since 1940, elegantly edited by Cyril Connolly; among its contributors "blast" is too thoroughly understood as a technical term to be wished on anyone. In the U.S., two old Fugitive poets, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate, are editing the Kenyan Review and the Sewanee Review, respectively and passably, each at a college. And Uncle Alfred is still, indefinably, at large...