Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maneuver. As its new budget shows (see below), Britain is more prosperous than at any other time since World War II. Never have more people owned their own homes; there are waiting lists for cars, tailors cannot get enough cutters to meet the tremendous demand for new suits, bookings for expensive continental holidays are the highest ever. Only in the past four years have the British enjoyed the kind of widely distributed prosperity that the U.S. has enjoyed for 15, and after ration-book austerity, the heady delights of TV sets, washers and new cars are an intoxicating experience...
...slice the team would love to touch is Broadway, but Stoller (who writes most of the music) complains that "nobody has offered us a decent book." In the meantime, Jerry and Mike go on helping the kids to identify. "Who's always writin' on the wall?/ Who's always goofin' in the hall?/ Who's always throwin' spitball?" Why, Charlie Brown, of course. Says Leiber: "If Cole Porter were starting out today, he'd have a tough time...
Soft Cell? In Burnaby, B.C., inmates being released from Oakalla Prison Farm got book matches on which was written...
What the boys at 20th Century Fox have done is the old familiar gag of buying the screen rights to a famous novel paying the author enough so he'll keep his hands off and then making a movie, ignoring the book as far as possible...
Meeham finally retired, thumbing through his rule book, and Boulris went on to line a scoring single to left. Right fielder Mo Balboni followed suit with a shot to center, sending home the fourth run of the inning. The earlier tallies came on a single by captain John Davis and a throwing error on Charlie Ravenel's grounder, after Mouse Kasarjian had walked and George Harrington had popped a bunt single over the charging second baseman's head...