Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best regards to Warner, the P.M. kid, who is at home recuperating from a case of pneumonia. Bob's home address is 253 West 72nd Street, New York, N. Y., in case you've an extra minute and a postal card...
...tests will be discreetly conducted in a booth in the concourse and the answers to 23 pertinent questions tabulated on cards for use in a card sorting machine. Dr. Hooton's assistants will conduct the research, one tabulating and one giving the passengers the chair...
...Maurice Chevalier declared her his only love and Charles MacArthur locked her in a men's lavatory. Between its name studded lines is the real story: the tale of a shrewd, attractive, indomitably ambitious girl from Slabtown, Tenn., who set out to become a celebrity, played every card just right, and finally got there...
...laughs as a cockney cornet player ("a weedy little buffer . . . half a bully and half a cringer"), the next minute as a suave, Oxford-bred musician who performs on a ramshackle glockenspiel. As a poetry-spouting drunk, he garnishes a skit that contains the show's other drawing card, London's best-known bottle-hymn, I'm Going to Get Lit-Up When the Lights Go Up in London...
Soon subway riders found themselves staring at Sir Thomas Lawrence's The Calmady Children, in color on a car card loudly labeled GREAT ART, unaccompanied by any text other than names of artist, picture and Museum director, and the fact that a print of the painting could be had by mail from the Metropolitan for 15? (or 10? at the Museum...