Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barrett, 52), who greets the audience with "Howdy, evvabuddy," warms evvabuddy's heart with his cracker-barrel philosophy. Uncle Ezra was in Hollywood, to play in Bob Burns's forthcoming Comin' 'Round the Mountain. So Widow Winnie Whipple, whose ineffectual attempts to land Uncle Ezra furnish continuity of a sort for the program, exclaimed "Hollywood my left hind foot!" and wept that he should turn out to be "nothin' but a Gay Lombardo"-to which Master of Ceremonies Joe Kelly, to make sure everyone got it, rejoined: "You mean a gay Lothario...
...critics of the government, do not favor unions or income taxes. One article recently read before a class of Military Science 1 students described an encounter between Socialist strikers and constabulary on a sugar plantation in Manila. The Instructor's comment was: "When the employer is good enough to furnish some food and a hut and some clothes for the poor workers, they ought to be happy, but then these Socialist agitators come in and try to make them feel discontented." Attacking income taxation, an instructor once read an item complaining that state and federal taxes consumed most...
Once a senior has determined the sort of work he wants, the Placement Office will assist him also to plan a campaign of job seeking, will help him with letters to employers, and will furnish him with names of companies and their officers...
Sirs: Could you furnish me with a little information about the term "pratt-fallen" which you apply to Sonja Henie in the Jan. 29 issue? STAN GIBSON Montreal...
...Georgia furnished last week's biggest Democratic primary news. At Senator Walter George's suggestion, John Garner avowed his willingness to enter the primary. New Deal Governor E. D. Rivers, counted to swing his hand-picked delegates for Roosevelt, stayed in his shell. If he did call a primary, results would furnish the best Southern test of New Deal v. Old Deal Democrats...