Word: automatisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allegedly able to turn an obscure song into a national hit with a couple of performances (example: White Christmas). In Manhattan, where the plugging fraternity boasts some 325 workers in sharply draped suits, some 35 play a weekly game of gin rummy with Fred Waring in a Broadway automat...
...story of the infertile girl who conceived after two months of eating at the Automat is probably apocryphal (the doctor is said to have recommended it because Automat vegetables are not overcooked). But Dr. Siegler cites "instances of conception with no therapy directed actually at the reproductive system but following such practices as physical and mental relaxation, separate vacations for husband and wife . . . removal of foci of infection in sinuses, tonsils, and digestive system, correction of anemia...
...raised Steinway Hall's roof with incessant rehearsals. They were out to prove, once & for all, that opera does not have to be sung by middle-aged tenors and bulging contraltos. Between arias, they hotly argued this revolutionary' idea over hamburgers and milk in the 57th Street Automat. To the participants the New Opera is more than opera: it is a crusade. They came from all over the U.S., Canada, Mexico, even Hawaii, picked by audition from thousands of young singers who have applied for a chance to prove that they could sing big-time opera if only...
...shocking exploit of two British Security policemen who toured a London suburb in Nazi uniforms unmolested (TIME, Feb. 2), decided to see whether it could happen here. Dressed as German U-boat commanders, William B. Mellor Jr. and Frank Toughill wandered about downtown Philadelphia, talked German in a crowded automat, peering suspiciously at defense plants, asked a traffic cop questions in broken English. Only interest they aroused was from a small boy on roller skates. Said he: "Oh, boy! Join the Navy and see the world...
...French worker would never be content with half an hour for lunch and he never would go into an automat for ready-made food. No, our worker likes to eat well and with discrimination. He goes home for lunch, if he lives near the factory, and . . . he is apt to get a better-prepared and more varied meal...