Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wodehouse in the Groove Sirs: In the July 14 issue we read (under Radio) more about P.G. Wodehouse and his broad casts from Germany. I am prompted to say that on the evening of July 1, while "fishing around" in the short-wave band, I picked up "Berlin calling-" and it was announced that Mr. Wodehouse was about to broadcast...
They surrounded themselves with some of the greatest names of the stage, among them, Lillian Russell, DeWolf Hopper and David Warfield. For every serious success other producers had, Weber & Fields turned out a broad and successful burlesque. They matched Du Barry with Du Hurry, Quo Vadis with Whoa Vass Iss?, Cyrano de Bergerac with Cyranose. Whatever the title, Weber & Fields remained the same. Lew Fields tried to explain, Joe Weber couldn't understand. Joe Weber disgraced himself, Lew Fields hit him over the head...
...cinema and saw Golden Boy. They went to the music halls and saw very proper classical shows. Despite tight restrictions on liquor sales, they managed to find a nip here & there. They wandered into shops and had a fine time trying to make the shopkeepers (who had learned the broad English words of the British) catch onto the American twang...
...head of the Black Dragon Society. The Council For Launching National Policies has been holding public meetings, and lately it sent a spokesman to see Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. The Premier had one of his convenient colds, so the Council sent the Government a letter of advice, with a broad hint that the advice had better be followed...
...ablest educators of Europe and America gathered last week to sketch a brave new post-war world-a world in which education would play a role denied it at Versailles. Like certain famous beer-hall conferences conducted some 20 years ago, this conference had a leader-a tubby, broad-shouldered ex-German named Reinhold Schairer-and a conspiratorial air, but its ideology was far different. In the minds of the conferees the outlines of a new world order took definite shape; an organization to establish it had already been born...