Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made the boards seem mighty soft underfoot. When Jack quit the stage in 1931, he was making a mere $1,000 a week. Now he would open on Broadway, at the Roxy, for what looked like the biggest pay ever shelled out for a personal appearance. Variety's guess: $40,000 a week...
...much-publicized radio legend (which Uncle Don insists is a canard): once, having finished off a program with a particularly sugary string of cliches and commercials, he loosened his tie, curled his lip and snarled: "There, I guess that'll hold the little bastards." Then he learned that he was still...
...March 4, Corporal Monson will be out of the Army. Did he think the 18 months he had put in were wasted time? "Well, I guess it is," he said, "when you consider that I could be a junior in college today if I hadn't had to come into the Army. But I won't say that I haven't learned anything. I've learned to get along away from home. And I've learned to live with other guys. I guess I'll do better in school when I get back. They...
WPTB, checking up, found that 8,794 coupons for butter, sugar, and meat had been fished out of the vat and later used. How many clean coupons had been lost through the chute holes, WPTB could only guess. How was WPTB destroying used coupons now? Said Enforcement Officer W. F. Spence: "We dispose of them -period...
...many of you have wanted to know the author that TIME has decided to break the rule. Speculating on the authorship of the Marian Anderson story, Marjorie Kinnan (The Yearling) Rawlings wrote: "My belated obeisances for the magnificent story on Marian Anderson. It was so beautifully written (my guess would be Whittaker Chambers) and gave such a spiritual lift." Novelist Rawlings guessed right...