Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen under the rule of the "Red Snapper," Boss Crump. One was to make all east-west streets avenues. Caught in that genteeling was the street of dance halls, voodoo doctors, fortune tellers and saloons that Blueswriter W. C. Handy made famous in Beale Street Blues. Last week a counter-reform movement gathered such power that Mayor Walter Chandler, longtime Crumpet, had to take notice. Memphis Negroes couldn't get used to living on Beale Avenue. They wanted to be back on Beale Street, the way the tune says...
...paid almost $1,000,000 for 17 Broadway plays. In the first two months of 1940 it paid about half that for five. But though plays are selling faster and for generally higher prices this year than last, most of Broadway's fanciest merchandise is still on the counter...
...bargain counter for six years, Tobacco Road is suddenly being fingered as quality merchandise. Hollywood's new theory is that people have just got to see a movie made from the play that has busted all Broadway records. Meanwhile Tobacco Road, which fancies it is good for another two years on Broadway, and an eon on the road, feels it can afford to sit tight until it fetches a big fat price...
With both sides working at top pitch, Saturday's tilt showed far superior stickwork than the game at the Boston Garden a week before. After the contest, Clark Hodder said that his team played its best game of the year, but was simply unable to counter the Eli attacks...
...uncensored) speech calling for instant Allied aid to Finland by land, air and sea. Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, handsome young top commissar of the Red Navy, was reported speeding to Murmansk, main base for Russia's northern Fleet. White Russians in the U. S. talked excitedly about a counter-revolutionary regime, to be set up in northern Russia if the Allies strike there...