Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Sinatra, teatiming at the White House at the invitation of Democratic Chairman Robert Hannegan (who also brought along Manhattan Restaurateur Toots Shor, an ex-bouncer, and Funnyman "Rags" Ragland, an ex-burlesque comic), was kidded by the President about "the art of how to make girls faint," and came away determined to buy radio time of his own to campaign for Term IV. Observed The Voice: "My fans are not all teenagers. . . . Besides, even the 15-year-olds can influence people...
Hunger and Heartbreak. He lived for a year and a half in the slums of London. He lived on tea and buns, learned what it felt like to faint from hunger. He rented an abandoned studio, slept on the models' stand, with a moth-eaten bearskin for a blanket. When his salary at a press-clipping agency was upped to 30 shillings a week, he was in clover. In Sussex, in a farmhouse that had once been a priory, in a big sunny room with casement windows, he wrote his first, brilliantly titled, critical book, The Wine...
...Bennett was again playing bridge. This time her partner, a young man unacquainted with her past, overbid. As he laid down his hand, he casually murmured: "Partner, I'm afraid you'll want to shoot me for this." Commented Woollcott: "Mrs. Bennett had the good taste to faint...
...ancient, tranquil towns of Provence stirred uneasily in the hot August sun. This year there were no vacationing Parisians on the beaches but a new wave of American tourists had arrived. Through the nodding summer countryside came the faint chatter of machine-gun fire, the roar of a big gun, the crack of a rifle. On dusty roads columns of tanks grumbled by, and above them fighter planes rode busily to work...
...full fury of that attack could not yet be measured. There was no time for the statistics of destruction. But there were bits and pieces that gave a faint glimmer of what the Germans faced this week. In two days, fighters of the U.S. Eighth Air Force (ordinarily bombers' escorts) destroyed nearly 1,000 trucks and vehicles. The Ninth Air Force fighters ran up an even larger score-nearly 1,800 vehicles. The big strategic bombers-Fortresses and Liberators, night-flying Lancasters and Halifaxes, every aircraft that could tote a bomb-raked the lines of retreat that reached back...