Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frankly, Vag was up a tree. Four thousand romantic souls were crowded around the "Greeting Card" counter in most unromantic proximity, and there was an imminent danger that the riot squad would have to be called out to resuscitate an aggressive little lady rapidly languishing in the midst of the press. Four determined looking Radcliffe girls were badgering a defenseless and bewildered football player into a neutral corner. And Vag doggedly circled the outskirts of the mob, looking for a weak spot to assail. Around him reared the walls of the edifice Mr. Woolworth had built of all the little...
...hope that you write to us soon, even a card. With best regards from Finland...
...will lunch with Mrs. Conant before going to a tea at PBH at three o'clock. The Harvard Dames have joined with the M. I. T. Dames, who are composed of wives of graduate students and faculty wives, in making arrangements for the tea. Admission will be by card only...
...when she graduated from high school, she got a job in the Hackensack office of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and for eight hours a day, at least, put her mind on card files and customers' complaints. That was where James Steward first saw her. He was the advertising manager, a graduate of Alabama University, 22, quiet and reserved. Jessie's brown eyes stopped him in his tracks...
...Italian opera began to limp downhill. But its Wagnerian opera has goosestepped steadily on. When big, blue-eyed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad joined the company in 1935, Wagnerian opera began to boom, played to the biggest box office the Met has known since Caruso's day. Principal drawing card in the Met's Wagnerian productions was Soprano Flagstad's bosomy personality and earth-mother voice. But she could not have done it all by herself. Supporting her was as fine a team of husky, seasoned Wagnerian troupers as could be found in any opera house the world over...