Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks. In Sikeston, Mo., the Standard reprinted a New Mexico widow's card of thanks: "I wish to thank all who so kindly assisted in any way in the death of my dear husband...
Murray's biggest card is his ability to get headliners in the audience to participate. Some of them, such as Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, chime in from down front. Others, such as W. C. Fields, Mickey Rooney, Victor Moore, Edgar Bergen, Dick Powell, Rudy Vallee, take over the stage. Murray exploits his guest stars brilliantly-by not exploiting them at all. They are never given billing, are often not even introduced. As a result, the audience feels it is really getting something extra for its money...
...Both cards will serve to press the same trading point: if Britain and Russia will put aside their fears of future attack to make what the U.S. considers a good peace, the U.S. will be willing to take an active part in making that peace work. The new Senators' card was in the form of a letter to the President...
Their plan (adopted at a conference of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors in Chicago): voluntary rationing. Retailers will issue as many numbered ration cards to their customers as their stocks permit, and punch once for every pack sold. Dealers will honor only cards signed by themselves. To get cards, customers will have to sign declarations swearing they will hold no other dealer's card...
Under the snowy New England skies, surrounded by illimitable forests, the Puritans found the meaning of life in the love of God. They did not frown upon card-playing, dancing, flashy clothes and the sexual appetite as evils in themselves, but because the love of God permitted no rivalry. They affirmed the doctrine of human depravity. But it remained for the 20th Century, uncovering the raw materials and forces of human life and making a cult of the uncovering ("as though there were some virtue in returning from modern plumbing to surface drainage"), to reaffirm the doctrine of human depravity...