Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among the most popular weekly radio items in England. A program self-described as "serious in intention, light in character," it was originally designed to relieve the Forces from a surfeit of dance bands. Not only the Forces but an audience of about 10,000,000 Britishers now give ear...
...mail-order experts deserved a respectful ear. In the 1930s they outwitted, outsold and outearned most U.S. merchants. While Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward boosted combined sales from 1930's $600,000,000 to 1940's $1,219,000,000, department-store volume slumped 9%. While mail-order profits jumped sky-high many a department store plopped into receivership...
...title for the fourth successive year are the Cleveland Barons, owned by Cleveland Inkman Albert Sutphin and managed by Bill Cook, onetime Ranger star. For several years, the National League has tried to get Cleveland to join its lopsided seven-team loop. But Owner Sutphin has turned a deaf ear...
...series of related episodes, How Green lacks the dramatic vigor of a unified story, but it has a kind of sustained theme in the relationship of Huw to his family. His innocent eyes watch his Godfearing, authoritarian father (Donald Crisp) turn a deaf ear to the rumblings of 19th-Century labor disputes; his honest, hardworking brothers forced by cheap labor to quit the mine and emigrate to the U.S.; his beauteous sister Angharad (Maureen O'Hara) marry the mine owner's son after the village cleric (Walter Pidgeon) stoically refuses to have her share his poverty; his good...
...inevitable as the happy ending the virtues of national defense make a forced and over-obnoxious entrance into the picture when the drafted Montgomery, who had never been able to match his brother in a trial of fisticuffs, comes back, on furlough and knocks Preston Foster on his ear. This finishes the business...