Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business, Broadway's limber-faced Danny Kaye was nevertheless an X quantity as a disembodied voice. An album of records by him had been a sellout, but even his most ardent fans thought of him as a wild-eyed, sharp-nosed, mile-a-minute mugger who tore himself apart with frantic pantomime. Last week he proved he could be funny in the dark...
...doctors kept check on her: now, like Lord Byron and a host of other driven people before her, she' has developed a habit of grinding her teeth in her sleep. To a friend concerned over her obsessive exertions she exclaimed: "But doll! Once I let up I fall apart! So I never...
...replacement system is no improvisation. The ability of the U.S. to fight two wars on fronts some 13,000 miles apart-on a scale which no other nation in the world can match-is due in part to this plan, which General George Catlett Marshall laid down in the beginning...
...Nest are not the original Suckers. Some have died of layers' cramp, some have been killed by dear little doggies, and some, weary of their concentration camp and disgusting food, have committed suicide by wedging their heads into the wire netting and twisting their own necks. But apart from the few who took the coward's way out, tribute must be paid to those who have carried on. . . . They have produced in four years more than 600 eggs. Of these at least 50 have been eaten by rats or squashed by the darling feet of dear little doggies...
...noted here that apart from all the other hardships endured by women in this war the small humiliations of shopping have been the most difficult to bear. N. Gubbins, Esq. can remember a day when his life partner smiled up into the face of a butcher and begged for a bone to make some soup. When he replied : 'I believe you had a bone a fortnight ago. There are other people who want bones besides you,' there were murmurs of approval from other women in the shop and the life partner of N. Gubbins, Esq., retired in confusion...