Word: funning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Tulsa went to the polls. When the votes were counted, Roy Lundy was in, 17,755 to 15,952. Said he: "I've had fun all my life and have played penny-ante at least once a week. Expect to keep on doing both...
...Back at the Cotton Belt, hardworking Railroader Green, who has a rare taste for mathematics, could soon recite the Cotton Belt's revenue figures, for any month or year, down to the last decimal. Green, who became chief executive in 1946, still works a six-day week. (For fun, he does exercises in calculus...
...most incredible things about this incredible film is the fact that it isn't nearly as terrible as it sounds. In an odd sort of way, it is fun. Much of the laborious cuteness, questionable bit by bit, is so wildly preposterous that the total effect is cheerfully insane-a little as if it were possible to have a happy, harmless case of the d.t.s. The movie will undoubtedly bore some people, disgust some and delight others; but on its novelty value alone, it may make a lot of money. The mere thought of the human and subhuman labor...
...wind may have been blowing at 46 m.p.h. The water may have been rough. They may have anchored offshore (which is recommended procedure; it's not much fun anchoring on the shore...
...Fun at Home. At LaGuardia Field, N.Y., the American Airlines' lost & found department was looking interestedly for whatever party lost a case of beer, an automatic backscratcher, three burlesque-type G-strings, a strait jacket...