Word: bee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columnist Robert C. Ruark contributes these adjectives: "Corny, strident, boresome, florid, repetitive, offensive, moronic, and nauseating." Occasionally big radio wheels like Mr. Stanton or Mr. Paley rise and plunge the dagger in their bressiz by decrying their own low standards. And groups like the FCC and Listeners' Councils are bee-busy trying to urge radio over the 13-year-old level...
...Tonight, that Fred really got on the radio beam. Not long after, he latched on to the biggest stunt of his career: his feud with Jack Benny. One night he assured a guest on his program, a twelve-year-old violinist, that he played the Flight of the Bumble Bee better than Benny played it after 40 years of practicing. Showman Benny knew a cue when he heard one. For ten years radio's biggest running gag has been kept alive without a single backstage strategy conference...
...Thus Bees and Ants about their Business go, Vague, as it seems, effective, as we know. Each bee, alone, from Rose to Lily flies, A wretched piece of Private Enterprise...
...graders perched on the edges of their chairs and strained for the answers to such posers. Each studio was jammed with soprano cheering sections from competing schools. Teachers, who had coached their hopefuls for competition, watched nervously. The program was Quizdown, an interschool contest conducted on old-fashioned spelling-bee lines...
...Movieman L. B. Mayer's favored Stepfather finished first in a mad scramble down the stretch in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Vicente Handicap. Then three rival jockeys complained that Stepfather had fouled them in a bumping bee, and for 16 minutes the judges debated. Their decision: disqualify Stepfather, make second place Hubble Bubble the winner...