Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stokowski hired him as a soloist in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, but his dress suit cost as much as he earned. Then he went into the Army a private, and came out a lieutenant, and made enough money singing Red Ball Express in the Broadway G.I. hit Call Me Mister to pay for an encouraging Town Hall debut. His springboard to Aïda: success in Mexico City on the radio and as soloist at President Miguel Alemán's official dinners...
Throwback. In Brownsville, Tex., Air Express complained that the Snake King Bird & Animal Farm had shipped a descented skunk which gave birth, en route, to a normally scented baby...
...overseas editions, are overwhelmed with requests for copies of a book called How To Do Business Under the Marshall Plan. The roster of names signed to these letters could serve as a Who's Who of American business, big and small, and the sentiments they express show a genuine desire on the part of private industry to participate wholeheartedly in the Marshall Plan...
President Conant went on to express the opinion that these colleges should have the right to give a special bachelor's degree--"that badge of respectability for most Americans." A two-year degree of bachelor of general studies (B.G.S.) night well represent the final degree for a majority of college students...
Late one night last January an inspector tailed the "doctor" to an express office and watched him address a package to a Louisiana doctor. When opened, it proved to contain abortion paste ($5 a tube, enough for three perilous abortions). An FDA man followed the package to its destination and seized it as evidence. Later, another package was trailed through the mails to Arkansas...