Word: fide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the New Deal. No more will Romeo tell Juliet that he cannot marry her because the WPA has bounced him for being a Republican. Agreeing that such tricks are unfair and unseemly, the National Association of Broadcasters last week voted to restrict political broadcasts to speeches, interviews, bona fide rallies...
...Idaho, a woman set the long-distance buying record by telephoning and money-ordering for a $200 mink coat. Only one phony has been recorded, but last April Fools' Day the program turned down an offer of a .32-calibre revolver from John Bad, later found it bona fide, the seller's full name being Badinovac. One man has been trying unsuccessfully to get $25 for six pairs of breeding bullfrogs and several hundred pollywogs. Another wants to trade a shotgun for a trailer. Biggest item the program has ever tried to sell was half-interest...
...home labor. Of the "better variety" camp, the American Automobile Association recognizes only 9,600, approves of no more than 3,200 as "first-rate tourist stops." These Ritzes of the far-flung industry prefer the name motor court to tourist camp (auxiliary name: motel), cater only to bona fide tourists. Typical of them is Pines Camp Cottages and Trailer Court in the outskirts of Valdosta, Ga., on U. S. Highway No. 41, no miles north of Jacksonville. Started 15 years ago by a former carnival showman and amusement park builder named Henry Bertram Aldrich, Pines Camp today...
Until it was discovered using the college building for headquarters under the guise of a political discussion group, the Yankee-American Action had no bona fide members on its rolls. The student recruits joined the organization after its expulsion from Harvard grounds...
...When he did the publicity for The Great Magoo, which the critics drubbed, he had a hand in the decision of its playwrights, Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler, to lie in state in separate coffins at a funeral parlor. For Billy Rose, Maney concocted an advertisement for "100 bona fide noblemen" to serve as dancing partners at Rose's Fort Worth Frontier Centennial. "In answering," read the ad, "submit photographs in uniform, with orders, ribbons and decorations evident. . . . Bogus counts, masqueraders and descend ants of the Dauphin will get short shrift...