Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rushed to the sewing tables to get the dresses ready in time. Curly-haired Jacques Fath, stripped to the waist, sat in a room stacked with designs and lengths of expensive material. "The girls are the first to suffer if they stay away," said he. "They'll be back...
Shirley May was looking for glory, perhaps even a Hollywood contract, but last week she was seasick. On the Dutch luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam, eastbound, a steward with a tempting tray knocked at her stateroom door. "Come back later, much later," moaned Shirley May. "How I wish I could get off this ship and swim the rest...
...green horse van, Air Lift was taken back to the stables. The track veterinarian found two compound fractures of the ankle, deadened the pain with a double shot of novocaine. Grooms sponged the colt off and gave him some hay to munch. New York Sun Sportwriter W. (for Wilford) C. Heinz, who turned in the best story of anybody that day, reported the dialogue that came next...
...repeated consonants, the boy asked what could be done for him. Young Dr. Greene had heard nothing about speech difficulties in medical school. He told the patient to return in a few days; he would try to find out what could be done. But the boy did not come back. He killed himself...
...first advertisement in 1919, in his own New Appeal, Haldeman-Julius got 5,000 replies. When he took a $150 flyer in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he got back $1,000 in orders. Later, misplacing the copy for another ad, he dashed off an eye-catching substitute: WOULD YOU SPEND $2.98 FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION? Thousands of customers answered...