Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tallul'ah, an Indian word of unknown origin (it may mean "terrible"), came to her by way of her maternal grandmother from Tallulah Falls in northeastern Georgia. The falls are now dammed, but, appropriately, there is a Tallulah Power Plant...
...cubbyhole office in Manhattan last week came news of the biggest deal in theatrical real estate since the purchase of land for the Radio City Music Hall. The deal: Shubert Brothers had bought the plot between Manhattan's 44th and 45th Streets-just west of Times Square-on which sit four of the busiest Broadway theaters (the Shubert, Broadhurst, Booth and Plymouth...
From his twelve-by-twelve office in the Shubert Theater, Lee (Broadway's most famous "bachelor" until his secret wedding came out when he was sued recently for divorce) manages the Manhattan dominion of the empire, while Jake tends more to the colonies. They often work together on producing, have turned out as many as 16 shows in one season. Their formula: "All plays have to have love interest. If you have no love interest, you have no play...
...Surface. Penman Milton Reynolds came up from the murky underwater world of ball-point pens with an eyecatching new gadget. It was a transparent plastic cigarette lighter with an oversize load of fluid-enough, he said, for 8,304 lights v. 842 for an ordinary lighter. Reynolds said that he has advance orders for 250,000 (including 50,000 for Gimbels), and that subcontractors, already producing 18,000 a day, would soon step up production to 70,000. The price, with the plastic stand and case: $5. So that customers will not associate the lighter with his much-panned...
...relieves Physicians of incurable patients ... 5. It relieves the world of old men who keep the minds of men in chains to old prejudices. These men do not die half fast enough. Few Clergymen, Physicians, or Lawyers beyond 60 do any good to the world." When death came for Dr. Rush...