Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city markets big bamboo tubs and bigger vats heaped with rice are plainly displayed. But the price of rice is terribly inflated and it goes only to those who can afford the black market. UNRRA relief supplies are trickling in by river junks from Shanghai. Whenever UNRRA supplies arrive, the price of rice drops, only to go up again because the supplies are not enough...
...Zilch. Ballyhoo satire on American advertising made so much money for Editor Anthony during the depression that he had a hard time staying broke. But he did: he blew it on a Broadway revue, on a trip to Europe (which bored him), on openhanded loans, on the horses, on bigger-than-ever drinking bouts...
Louis' first New York job was in 1924 with Fletcher Henderson's famed band at Roseland Ballroom, just five blocks from the Aquarium. His early records (West End Blues, etc.) were bigger hits in Europe than in the U.S. He followed them across the Atlantic in 1931. Those were the days when he blew screeching high notes that he probably could not make consistently today. When he hit 280 high Cs and then slid up into F one evening, a London theater manager begged him to cut it to 70 Cs, because the noise made him nervous while...
Miss Williams has said that the contest winner "must have more than good looks," but nobody is quite sure what she means. After Tuesday night's performance, the bigger-than-life blende said demurely that she was really just a country girl...
...girl is, of course, Chili Williams, former Conover model, polkadotted pin-up, and current object of Harvard publicity men's attention, and the play is called "Bigger Than Barnum." It is not a good play, and it will not go to New York...