Word: decorates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 400 servicemen attend each week. While the show is on the air, Miss Scully's "blind dates," assembled from NBC's stenographic staff, from U.S.O., from other sources, form a part of the stage decor. They are told to dress "fluffily, but not elaborately or formally." The dance afterwards lasts until 11 or 11:30, and under the knowing Scully eye no unfortunate incidents have yet occurred; no girls have wept; no fists have flown...
Bowden Broadwater's story, "Several Blots on the Family Escutcheon," is an amusing account of domestic disaster in the genteel atmosphere of the best residence of a southern city. Mr. Broadwater's interest in decor is always a pleasure to come upon, and his use of this kind of detail here is very successful. If it sometimes seems that he conceives of his characters as mere extensions of decorators' fashions, that is at least a novel way of conceiving of characters; and in this story it is most appropriate of the several devices which characterize Broadwater's original satiric tone...