Word: backroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power-mad politician who has set his heart on bossing the world. The best of recent Hollywood attempts to fuse studio and documentary styles, this slam-bang indictment of grass-roots demagoguery is full of punch and color: melodramatic shots of campaign barbecues, torchlight parades, legislative brawling and backroom political deals...
...muskrat rambled in. For two solid hours in that staid Lowell House cubicle there were ladies of the new Orleans evening and the stale smell of K.C. gin. But for the grim visage of Abbot Lawrence Lowell above the fireplace it might have been any backroom in Chicago back in the days when Cicero was Cicero and not an essay in Life magazine...
...lawyer, Villa-Lobos went to work at eleven after his father died, eked out a living playing in theater and cabaret orchestras. He wandered all over Brazil, listening to the boomlay music of the Indians, the songs of the Negroes, and the backroom jazz of cellar cafes. Then he began composing, combining all he had heard. In 1922 he descended on Paris. "I did not come to study," he announced, "but to show what I have done...
...hockey debacle as a minor international incident. Snow is drifting over the St. Moritz rinks, and the A.H.A. and the A.A.U. teams are taking a look-see through Europe on the cuff before embarking for the States. The Brundage versus Brown issue is, for the moment, closed. But in backroom, beer-primed athletic colloquiums the nation over, A.A.U. and A.H.A. partisans are waxing eloquent over the entire American amateur athletic picture. Avery Brundage's Olympic committee, of which Bill Bingham is a member, gets excited about amateur athletics once every four years, searches through its dusty files, and throws...
...major producers, among them R.C.A. and Philco, were still holding out, but few radiomen thought that they would for long. The price-cutting fever had also infected the television business.* The big news came from Admiral Corp.'s hard-hitting President Ross D. Siragusa, who parlayed a backroom radio shop into the fourth biggest radio business in the country. Last week, he came out with a table television receiver (seven-inch screen), retailing at $169.95, the cheapest ever to go on sale...