Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally after a lot of talking and shaking hands, someone started drawing the ticket stubs out of a bowl, and Vag found himself sitting forward in his seat. But someone else won, and there was a short, disappointed burst of applause. The girl gave him an "I told you so" look, and stalked away, while Vag ambled with the crowd through the exit and toward the bridge. Raffles were pretty good, he said to himself after a little consideration. Even if you didn't win, there was the excitement. And that was one thing that Harvard lacked, excitement...
Margaret Truman, who tried out on the radio five months ago, announced that she would sing in public for the first time next week. Scene of her debut: the Hollywood Bowl (capacity...
...York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, Producer Harry Kurnitz detailed "standard equipment" needed by a screenwriter: "A Capehart, a Utrillo, a French poodle, a sun lamp, an exwife, a lawyer (for the ex-wife), an antique Chippendale gag file, some cashmere underdrawers, an empty box at the Hollywood Bowl (it doesn't count if anybody ever sits in it), one friend (preferably getting the same salary he gets)." "A typewriter?" suggested Wilson. Kurnitz shuddered, explained that a writer always dictates...
More than 1,500 Puerto Ricans arrived in the U.S. last week. The majority were beggar-poor, had no prospects of jobs or any training. They were the 1947 version of the Okies who had fled from the Southwest's Dust Bowl. Instead of riding the highways, the Puerto Ricans rode the skies. Most of them arrived in the bucket seats of converted Army transport planes, operated by charter airlines at bargain rates. By last week, the migration from their crowded, poverty-stricken land to the U.S. was at flood tide...
Football fever hit two unidentified undergraduates in a premature attack last night as they were the undisputed first arrivals in the unreserved section of the Yale Bowl...