Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made more broadcasts. They were radio's first great national program. They were the chief instigators of the habit of listening to a fixed program night after night. They were the great American institution of blackface comedy at its greatest spread and financial return. Their droll dramatizations, a blend of simple narrative interest and skillful characterization, caught the Negro attitude and idiom without burlesque...
Provocative, unusual, but often unsatisfying, The Skin of Our Teeth dolls up its theme rather than dramatizes it. The fourth dimension somehow stays apart from the other three. Hocus-pocus and moral never quite blend. But the hocus-pocus-with superbly vivacious Actress Bankhead handing most of it out-is often extremely funny. "I hate this play," she suddenly confides. "That's the worst line I've ever had to say on any stage," she complains wearily; but she never spoke one better...
...only one restaurant has gone over to the chicory coffee combination. Hayes-Bicford's has swung to an 80 per cent coffee, 20 per cent chicory blend in an effort to supply the huge consumer demands...
Three other restaurants will swing into the blend parade when and if the shortage grows too acute. Hazen's, Leavitt and Peirce's, and the Merle all will use the blend, "if worst comes to worst," their managers and owners said yesterday...
...succeeded by Thomas Kernan, author of Paris on Berlin Time) and married London Vogue's beautiful Nada Jellibrand. When he returned to Manhattan, Condè Nast put him on the board of directors. Special Patcèvitch talents are: 1) social graces and fashionable tastes that blend perfectly with the smart world of Condè Nast Publications; 2) a canny head for business management. The second talent is the one that is most needed...