Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this $500 Pulitzer Prize award, Reporter Johnson murmured modestly that "the woods are full of reporters who could do as good a job." Then he took time out for an office cocktail party in his honor, and went back to digging...
King George County's high school for white children had a gymnasium, central heating, showers, a good cafeteria and a fair-sized library. King George's Training School for Negroes got its heat out of old oil drums converted into makeshift stoves. It had rickety outside privies and so little classroom equipment that not even the most elementary science courses could be given. When the N.A.A.C.P. found that conditions in Gloucester followed much the same pattern, it decided to go to court. Result: last summer, a federal judge in Richmond ordered the Gloucester and King George school boards...
...George Jessel: "He doesn't have to try so hard now, and so he's not so liable to be stepping on other people's toes." Once damned by many who had to work with him on the way up, he now has the respect and good will of most of his show's topflight guest stars, as well as its lesser workers...
...line of duty, she has cut loose with her piercing, roof-shaking laugh in every major theater in the U.S. Only a frankly hostile audience could resist Mom's lead. Milton's stage response to her laughter has become standard: "Thank you, mother," and that is usually good for a laugh, too. Today, a vigorous woman of 71, Mom Berle took a bow on last week's TV show and did one of her specialties-a brief straight...
...Good Samaritan. Some of his best performances in nightclubs, which the new, more refined Berle professes to find too "smoky and noisy" for his taste, have been put on free, while Milton was a customer. Visiting a Philadelphia spot during the war after a hard day's work, he went on the floor at 3:30 a.m. and played until 6 to two customers, a janitor and some sleepy waiters. Recently, when Gypsy Rose Lee walked out on a club date at the last minute, Berle stepped in and put on a two-hour show. Last year, when...