Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, the flood had reached Manhattan. From 60 loudspeakers spotted throughout the wide halls and rabbit warrens of Grand Central Terminal, commuters were pursued by the Blue Danube and the persuasive commercial. F. LeMoyne Page, president of Terminal Broadcasting, Inc., promised to "permeate the whole place" with music broken every 2½ minutes by commercial spot-announcements. "Right now," said Page, '"we're experimenting with the difference in volume caused by the number of people. Ideally, we'd like to develop a 'thermostatic-type' control that would set the volume to the changing volume...
Wynn had promised to bring to TV "something old and something new, but nothing borrowed and nothing blue." In his opening telecast, there were a few borrowings (e.g., the ancient gag of casually lifting an outsized dumbbell from the straining hand of a strongman), and one skit, if not blue, verged on the off-color (Wynn coyly repelling the advances of Singer Gertrude Niesen...
...sale in drugstores for 35? to 40?, the kit consists of a test tube, a dropper and two reagent tablets. To five drops of urine and ten drops of water, add one tablet. If the solution turns blue, there is no sugar in the urine. If it turns any other color (most likely orange), there is sugar in the urine and a suspicion of diabetes. After that, the next step is to see a doctor...
...British amphibians and a passionate gadgeteer, comes near being one of his liveliest, most lovable creations. Narrated with crisp anonymity by Basil Rathbone, the film is packed with memorable moments: Toad chugging about on his rump in delirious imitation of a motorcar; his flight from jail through a dark blue night stitched red with running gunfire; the defeat of the thieving weasels in the epochal battle of Toad Hall. This lighthearted, fast-moving romp has inspired some of Disney's most inventive draftsmanship and satire-in the crotchets of Toad and his loyal friends, Rat, Mole, MacBadger and Cyril...
Although the dance group members generally do their plie's locomotor routines, and stretches in two-toned blue leotards, the standards have been shelved for the prospective male contingent. Men dancers can go barefoot and the girls suggest old shirts and trousers...