Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Joe, born on Manhattan's Second Avenue, was farmed out by his widowed mother to a German baker named Gus Schmall. He went to school for a while, ran off to sea, grew up and began having a chronic dream. In the dream Little Joe -now Big Joe-waved his hairy paw, whereupon the great ports of New York, Boston, Marseilles, San Francisco, Antwerp were paralyzed. All over the world shipping was paralyzed. Then the President of the U.S. called Joe and said: "Joe, you have paralyzed the world by a wave of your hand. What...
Shortly after midnight, people in the La Salle Hotel's big, ornate lobby in Chicago's Loop noticed a strange yellow light reflecting from polished table tops, from marble and window glass. The wavering glare grew. They looked up and saw flames billowing gustily across the dark, varnished paneling above the elevator bank...
Along with Eddie Miller, Wingy Mannone, Irving Fazola, and Nappy Lamare, Prima belongs to the second generation of hot musicians from the New Orleans white district. He grew up on the strong musical diet of "Papa" Laine, Dave Perkins, "Yellow" Nunez, "Stale Bread" Lacoume and others of that calibre, who played in what has been called the New Orleans white style...
...grew from a yellow soap bearing the trademarked name "Sunlight." To sell it, the Lancashire grocer's son flooded England with ads asking a magic question: "Why does a woman look old sooner than a man?" No one ever answered that...
...shrewd. Dressmakers had heard that OPA planned to reduce prices on dress materials by imposing ceilings. So nickel-wise manufacturers wiggled out of tentative contracts with suppliers. Rosenfeld was smarter-he took a loss by accepting every yard contracted for. Grateful cloth manufacturers did not forget this. When materials grew scarce, Rosenfeld got first choice...