Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading what Mrs. Holstein "cooked" for her 14 guests, I think a woman would have to go out to work to pay her food bill! If more women would try making pea soup with a ham bone instead of buying it in can, there wouldn't be so much griping about not being able to make ends meet. MRS. FRANTZ Levittown...
...sweaters, flat shoes, coarse hair uncombed, and the rugged tongue of someone who takes refuge in being thought a "kook." She loves to demonstrate eccentricity. One night she was sitting with a group of friends who were kidding her about her carelessness with money. Promptly Annie pulled a $20 bill from her purse and started eating it, nibbling the edges like a rabbit tackling lettuce. "I just love to eat money," said she, savoring the effect. "I must take it up with my analyst some time...
...keep the marriage a secret until he could tell his mother in person; the newlyweds moved into separate apartments, which they occupied for six months. Her husband always slept with a loaded revolver under his pillow. It made her nervous, she admits, but years later she told Playwright Bill Gibson: "I thought all husbands had guns under their pillows...
...them, the scent track might offer rather more than meets the nose. Exhibitors can sniff secondary possibilities in "the olfactory dimension." One of them has suggested that if he could give his customers the smell of steam heat, he might be able to cut down his oil bill. Another plans to fill his theater, at tactful intervals, with the scent of buttered popcorn...
...varsity used the customary ladder, except that Romer Holleran was unable to play. The alternates were Bob Schwartzman and Bill Chute, while Ed Vaughan moved into the top nine...