Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with sand, they had been filled with plain black dirt. Norway had been lost. In upper-class English drawing rooms they were saying: "England always loses every battle but the last one." Asked about Norway, the chambermaid said: " 'Orrible! 'Orrible! But I 'ear we gave 'em what for: killed millions more of them than they did of ours and that's certain...
...radio, so we started singin' on street corners. We did purty good. Then we got the idea of singin' at banquets, like the Chamber of Commerce and the gas company and all them other companies that give big feeds for the people who work for 'em. We put Sonny [her younger brother] in the business when we found they always paid a little bit more for three singers than...
...calling of 34-year-olds, 4,100,000 Britons were registered for Army service. Behind all these were 1,400 battalions of Local Defense Volunteers, whose name was last week changed to the Home Guard (thus robbing the L. D. V. of their slogan, "We'll give 'em Hell D. V."). The Home Guard are older men, trained at night and over weekends, with a hard core of War I veterans. Their officers' chief concern was to make them overcome their scruples, be prepared to demolish British property when necessary to exterminate Germans...
...Alaska Red, Columbia River's Fancy Chinook. So when the first albacore came to him in 1937, big, whispering, hard-hitting Bill Thompson, 60, sent them to California for processing and packing. California packers condemned twelve carloads. Roaring "To hell with that-we'll can 'em ourselves," Bill Thompson and his fellow Astorians put in $500,000 worth of new tuna-canning equipment...
...million-dollar" contract he wangled with Pepsodent, which transformed Amos 'n' Andy from a sustaining show into a national institution in 1929. A great one for soap operas, he can still point with pride to such Trammell-promoted shows as Clara, Lu 'n' Em, Fibber McGee and Molly, Betty and Bob, Ma Perkins...