Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guest on Information Please, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia recognized the ingredients of spaghetti sauce,* the duets in Tristan & Isolde, missed when he said he was New York City's 99th mayor (correct: 103rd, counting acting mayors). Encyclopedia and $25 went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from...
...forthcoming cinema with McLaglen & Lowe, Call Out the Marines, the radio show is written by eagle-beaked, serious-faced John P. Medbury, veteran newspaper humorist and radio gagster. Like most Medbury scripts, this one takes full advantage of his enormous library of humor, which includes everything from the Encyclopedia of Comedy to 10,000 Jokes, Toasts and Stories. He has written for Burns & Allen, Olsen & Johnson, Fred Astaire...
Four-Word Encyclopedia...
Your heading "War of the Dinosaurs" for your June 30 story on the Commu-Nazi war was a four-word encyclopedia of rebuke for the Anne Lindbergh Wave-of-the-Future group. I don't know when I've seen four words that said so much...
Hypnosis is a profoundly misunderstood phenomenon. In its ten paragraphs on the subject, Salter claims the Encyclopedia Britannica makes ten errors. Hypnotism was used in the early 19th Century to produce anesthesia for childbirth and surgery. Just when hypnotists were developing their techniques, and learning a little about the minds which they influenced, the anesthetic uses of chloroform and ether were discovered. So hypnosis, chloroformed, sank into a deep, troubled sleep...