Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four weeks later on Saturday, March 27, the Harvard Business School Association will give its second dance of the term, this time to be held in the Statler Hotel to the Music of Ken Reeves and orchestra. Dance chairman Dick Sinclair announces a "rock bottom" price...
...Beveridge Plan for social reform may soon meet in Parliament. Up in the House of Commons was a Catering Bill introduced by hornyhanded Labor Minister Ernest Bevin. A restaurant worker before he became a dock worker, Bevin asked for a commission to investigate the catering business from top to bottom, then recommend any necessary reforms...
...Bottom of the Barrel. The U.S. was finally scraping the bottom of its manpower barrel. Planning to induct about 400,000 men a month, it has already found that the leavings are thin indeed. General Hershey reported that rejections (mainly for physical and occupational reasons) already run from 35 to 40%, are expected to increase. By the end of the year only 3,000,000 fit men in the 18-37 age bracket will be left in civilian life...
...over the rolling Lincoln country, Republicans cheerfully and riotously voted an investigation of fuel oil rationing. (The House GOP leader applied an old gag to a new situation: "I hear that a lot of parents around the United States are being called Key Birds-they shudder down in the bottom of their cages and say, 'Key-rist, it's cold.' ") It made little difference that this is a Federal problem: Illinoisans must be kept informed (and GOPsters can gather a little campaign material). By the time the investigation is completed, it will be warm...
...today. As a gentleman, Dyer had naturally not wanted his name connected with the disreputable world of the theater, so he had Agent Shakespeare's name tacked to the plays. To get a bit of his own back, he satirized obese Will Shakespeare in certain plays, making him Bottom, Falstaff, William the Clown, and once even "a forlorn maid...