Word: barse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Still way is scratching out only a few bars a day in his modest Los Angeles home. His great enthusiasm is opera: he has written four, but none has ever been published. One of them, Troubled Island, with a libretto adapted from a play by Poet Langston Hughes, was...
Contempt of Congress is a criminal offense, and is usually punished as such. In 1929 Oilman Harry F. Sinclair was sent to jail for three months* for refusing to answer a Congressional Committee's questions on his company's dealings. In 1935 William P. MacCracken Jr., secretary of...
The newest, slickest, most popular performer of them all is a man who calls himself Gorgeous George. In Hollywood, some bars and grills no longer feature the single word "Television." They put out signs reading: "Gorgeous George, Television, Here Tonight."
At last it became possible to buy a set without fearing that it would be outdated tomorrow. Telesets appeared in bars, and a dog in Greenwich, Conn, was stricken with television-induced eyestrain.
Sport takes up a quarter of television's program time, not only because it is good but because most everything else is bad. It is probably the chief reason why television caught on first in the bars & grills. (Quipped Fred Allen: "There are millions of people in New York...