Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, the Glee Club isn't anywhere near as well off as it was in the boom days, but it is still financially self-sufficient. All concerts and trips are planned by a salaried undergraduate, and all profits are placed in a steadily growing Glee Club Trust Fund...
...suggestion that the next step was to enforce the recommendation, Chairman Davis grinned, replied: "I'm hoping the next step will be to accept..."If Lewis accepted the ignominy of such a defeat without a fight, it would be something new in boom-voiced Mr. Lewis' career...
When bee-busy little Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week boom-buzzed into office (by a slim plurality of 133,841) as New York City's first third-term mayor, a crack in the Democratic Party widened to a crevasse...
Phonograph records for children last week began their seasonal boom. Victor, most kiddie-conscious of disc makers, released its Christmas list: six sides from Walt Disney's Dumbo, and eleven Bluebird (Victor's cheaper label) albums. Seven of the eleven albums are the work of Helen Myers, who is the Rodgers & Hart of pint-sized music. Miss Myers, onetime Oklahoma City Junior Leaguer, Phi Beta Kappa, concert and jive pianist (a year at Manhattan's Rainbow Room), composer of moderately successful popular songs, has been with Victor for two years, dreaming up ideas for the children...
Though Miss Turner's peaches-&-cream face is void of any marks of endeavor, she is discovered in a Western boom town. So is "Candy" Johnson (Mr. Gable), a gay con man who talks himself into and out of control of the frontier town. Although Lana is obviously overyoung to handle anyone of Actor Gable's ilk, she marries him (with reform in her eye) for better or worse. She gets worse and likes...