Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natives are trudging back to their shops and cave homes-mostly the very young and the rather old, mothers with suckling babes, grandmothers stilting by on bound feet, greybeards leaning on staves, small fry skipping and chirping as though their world hadn't changed...
...Chicago, the once adored Vagabond Lover took a flyer at a nightclub comeback, though he didn't call it that ("You can't come back from where you haven't been"). Unlike Oldtimer Al Jolson, Rudy Vallee hadn't learned that his future was in his past. Still looking like a college boy-but of the class of '25, Rudy said: "People have me returning from the zombie dead. I don't look or act 45. I try to keep my stuff up-to-date. Nostalgia doesn't mean much...
Randolph Churchill, lecturing son of Winston, was still lecturing in the U.S. after six months, but backed out of a Manhattan radio date this week. Said Randolph: when he agreed to criticize Communist Earl Browder's new book (War or Peace with Russia?) on the air, he hadn't realized "that an American Communist would also be taking part. ... I have long made it a rule to have no association whatever with American, Canadian, or British Communists." The American Communist who would take part: expelled Comrade Browder...
...rolled north by ship and Pullman. They looked neither bad nor good, only perplexed. One of their deepest perplexities was the conduct of their manager, Leo Durocher. A bridegroom for the third time, he was acting as if he had never been on a honeymoon before. Some days he hadn't even showed up for practice. Other days, chewing gum thoughtfully, he spent most of the time gazing up at his screen-actress bride, Laraine Day, sitting in a box and chewing...
...gave up just before the end of Brünnhilde's ho-yo-to-ho aria when her accompanist, Edwin McArthur, fumbled. He explained that he hadn't played it for six years...