Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for an occasional nightclub outing with Dixie, he spends his evenings at home with the family telling the boys bedtime stories in Crosbyesque slang. One night Little Red Riding Hood finally gets "hep" that the wolf isn't grandma; the next night Goldilocks makes a "three-bowl parlay" on the bears' porridge. Every few months he asks over his old musician friends-Manny Klein, Lennie Hayton, Joe Venuti, and whoever happens to be in town-for a jam session in his large rumpus room. Summers he packs the family off to the ranch near...
...Angeles' glittering, stadiumlike Biltmore Hotel Bowl, 1,400 big and little cinewigs reverently listened to President Roosevelt (see p. 13), exuberantly hurrahed for Responder Bette Davis. They alcoholically splurged for a couple of hours as the lesser Academy Awards were doled out, pulled themselves together at last as John Ford (the only directorial nominee not present) got his Oscar for the year's best direction (The Grapes of Wrath). Then panting David Selznick got one for the best production (Rebecca). Thereupon Actress Lynn Fontanne, fresh from her evening's performance next door in There Shall...
Yardlings and Upperclassmen have deluged the nation with flowers and singing telegrams, kittens and a bowl of mushroom soup, heterogeneous evidence of their sentiment on this Valentine...
Bill Biggerstaff, a Southern California Rose Bowl player, and Carter Dunlap, who was a student center on the West Coast for two years, are also on the roster...
...huge, 15 inch silver gilt bowl, made by Thomas Bolton, is in one of the cases. Its inscription reads. "The gift of the Honourable City of Dublin to Capt. George Sanders, commander of Her Majesty's ship Seaforth, for his signal services in taking two French privateers, being the first that were brought into this harbour this war. Anno...