Word: barred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Managing Editor Eric Hawkins (who, being an Englishman with a French wife, was adept at suppressing what the French wouldn't like and correcting the more objectionable misspellings of the native composing room crew); Sportswriter "Sparrow" Robertson (who sent his copy over from Harry's New York Bar), and Laurence Hills himself (who was a little aghast at it all, except when he added up the profits). The Herald's, legion of homesick readers gladly paid 5? to read its cabled news from New York, its "Letters From the Mailbag" (occasionally staff-written), its classified...
...Negro show like its Federal Theatre rival, The Hot Mikado kisses the Old Boys good-by at about the eighth bar of the first song, turns Titipu into a dance hall before latecomers are in their seats, makes Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo carry on like three little maids from reform school, and finishes Act I in an uproar when Katisha busts in, no hatchet-faced termagant, but an eye-rolling, hip-shaking, torch-singing Red Hot Mama...
...headed waitress is still waiting for that date. Waiting likewise in thousands of U. S. roadside taverns, "jook joints," "pig joints," barbecue stands, taxi-dance halls, are thousands of other "dating" waitresses, B (bar) girls, "carhops," itinerant prostitutes. The dairy farmer's correspondents are also wondering what happened to that good catch...
...undertaking. But also because they were required to hand down a verdict on the hopes and fears of men with whom they no longer had anything in common. They, the judges, were famed professors, secure in position and reputation, and peculiarly exposed to conservatism. The young instructors before the bar were strugglers in a morass of uncertainty and ignorance about the future...
...flown. Other specifications: pilots must be able to slam on brakes at any landing speed without fear of nosing over; the plane must be manageable on the ground in winds up to 30 miles an hour; preferably it should be steered like an auto mobile, have no rudder bar. The only other thing expected of it, joked veteran fliers, was that it should mind the baby...