Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage his first day, stretched elegantly, and said: "Gee, I'm glad to be back on Broadway." Just then, blasters in an excavation near the Paramount let go with a charge of TNT, and the theater shivered. Cracked Danny: "Never mind the cannon, fellas; just tell 'em I'm glad to be back...
...basketball's greats. He seldom diagrams a play. Once, pressed to explain his "N.Y.U. system," he deadpanned: "Well, we throw the ball around a lot and do our best to put it in the basket." His real formula: hold the score down, wear 'em out, then pour...
...EM I/C) JOHN E. HOGAN c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco...
...roaring collective-bargaining days, Labor Leader Ernie Bevin shouted and pounded the table-but he did not stop bargaining. He "gave it to 'em for fair" (a favorite Bevin phrase), and the Russians were not happy. But they were still in UNO, and UNO was still in one piece. The piece was much more of a piece than it had been before...
...Gnippe (pronounced guh-nip), stocky, bespectacled cab driver and bowling fan, knocked off cruising in Chicago's Loop to watch the Petersen Bowling Tournament. Said he: "You have to throw 'em slow. You throw a fast ball and it goes bloop right through 'em...