Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly two miles, Los Angeles' Figueroa Street is lined with used-car lots flying the flamboyant flags of dealers like "Madman" Muntz, "Wildman" Pritchard, and "Honest John." Their zany ads for buying & selling cars delight zany Angelenos. Samples: "Just sound your horn ... we pay by ear," and "I want to give them away but Mrs. Muntz won't let me ... she's crazy...
...many people were turning a deaf ear to radio that it was causing talk. Last week Variety compared this year's final summer Hooperatings* with ratings ten years ago. The comparison...
...more than coincidental. Like Evans, Mr. Hill is fond of wearing a hat in his office. His alltime Hit Parade favorite is a slam-bang version of Over There (a tune which delighted Mr. Evans). Like Mr. Evans, whose slogan was "Love that Soap," Hill believes in irritating and ear-shattering repetition. Some American Tobacco plugs: "Herbert Tareyton is back-yes, Herbert Tareyton is back!" "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war" and "L.S./M.F.T...
Said Swingman Charlie Barnet, whose white band had been one of the few wild enough to tickle Harlem's native ear: "Tension music was okay during the war. Now we're done with it." He was about to cut down his 21-piece swing band to a smaller, tamer one because loud music hadn't paid well enough lately. Said he: "I'm one of the worst offenders. I have six trumpet men. Imagine that...
...James, whose horn is shrillest of them all, had just completed a one-night stand swing around the East and found it necessary to cut his asking price from a guaranteed $4,000 a night to $2,000. In Manhattan, not one of the big hotels was featuring an ear-splitting swing band...