Word: cues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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fluff-missing a cue, or stumbling over...
Many of radio's most familiar shop words (cue, gag, ad lib) are hand-me-downs from its elder cousins, the stage and screen. But radio now fits so snugly into a few that they seem custom-made. Last week Mutual published a dictionary of 200-odd broadcasting terms. Sample radioese...
...modern world can be characterized as coarse and vulgar . . . then our womenfolk are mainly responsible. Let it not be charged that men are responsible, for in this manner they take their cue from the women. When women are ladies, men are gentlemen. When women have no just regard for their own sacred character, men have none...
Like the rubber billiard cue and the collapsible bicycle, the word Peoria has always been good for a laugh in vaudeville. Generations of hoofers and comedians used it to epitomize U.S. hick towns. But though Peoria, Ill. lies in the corn belt, it is a pretty big town (pop. 105,087). It is also a river town, and it grew up around a whiskey keg, not a cracker barrel. Last week, after a new city primary election, Peoria had occasion to remind itself of its free-&-easy tradition once again...
...strategic bombardment of the enemy homeland had begun; but the battles with the enemy's major land forces were still to come. Soldiers in the Pacific complained that their war was neglected by the U.S. press and public. Yet the people were only following the cue of the Allied leaders; the defeat of Germany had been given priority over the defeat of Japan...