Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scoop. In Topeka, Kans., the State Journal headlined a story on the city's new hook-&-ladder truck, NOW BRING ON YOUR TEN-FLOOR FIRE, two minutes after publication sent reporters to a fire in the ten-floor Hotel Kansan...
...life of work, Mother Agatha gives herself little credit. But she has her satisfaction. She can't help being pleased when her alumni come back ("they seem to love to bring their children to see me"). It is not out of vanity, she insists, that she carefully conceals her age. Says she: "If I told it, they might try to retire...
...West, rejecting these counterproposals, set out modified proposals which included new concessions on the "technical administration" of Berlin. And there the matter rested at week's end. It seemed possible that the Kremlin might, in turn, modify its counterproposals enough to bring both sides into the area of agreement. In Washington, the feeling was that the chances of agreement to hold a Foreign Ministers conference were...
...Anatomy of Happiness. Do wealth and fame bring happiness? To Betty Grable the answer is yes. "I have what I want," she says, "and I am what I want to be." When her contract at Fox expired recently, she annoyed businesslike husband Harry by signing a new one with no raise in salary and no provision for outside pictures. When Boss Zanuck, who sometimes begins to believe his own press-agents, grows overambitious for Betty, she recalls him to reality. "Betty," he told her excitedly in 1945, "you're going to get the break of your life. I want...
...S.R.O. audience stormily approved every bit of it. Sighed Carlton Emmy, maestro of the dog act: "It was like coming back to the old homestead . . ." Veteran Pat Rooney, who started in vaudeville back in 1890, said: "When I saw that audience I got that old feeling. Sure, television will bring back vaudeville. Vaudeville's never died." But it had changed a lot. Said Gus Van: "Years ago, you used to sit for an hour in the theater and make yourself up. Now a fellow with nice soft hands comes along and does it for you." Ella Logan...