Word: basement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago the Royal Chicken Roost was just another basement Broadway joint, specializing in Southern fries. It enjoyed a brief notoriety last December when it offered Margaret Truman $10,000 a week for a personal appearance and was politely refused. A short time later it dropped the "Chicken" and became the country's principal showcase for what its earnest admirers call "progressive" music...
When the Sacred Cow, bringing her on the last lap of her trip from California, landed at Washington National Airport, a hearteningly enthusiastic little crowd of U.S. and Chinese officials was on hand to greet her. But the welcome turned into something like a bargain-basement sale. The crowd pushed, photographers struggled. George Marshall was conspicuously absent; he had gone to Walter Reed Hospital with an old kidney ailment. Mrs. George Marshall took Madame Chiang firmly by the arm, led her past the microphones of protesting radio men and into a State Department Cadillac...
After hearing strange sounds in the basement, Miss Leathers turned a flash-light on the youth from the top of the cellar stairs "I asked him what he wanted." She said, but he "just stared at me." She immediately yelled to the girls on the ground floor...
Inter-regional rifle matches are usually completed by mail, and in this case, Maryland will mail its scores in. Results will not be known for at least a day. The rifle team practices in the basement of the Indoor Athletic Building...
...usual rush on music. The classics are expected to comprise 70 percent of the holiday trade, as they did last year, and in deference to this, the window is packed with records of symphony and opera. For those who plan to give someone a television set, the Briggs basement is the place...