Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calm hung over the quiet west London suburbs of Acton, Chiswick and Ealing. Housewives popped in & out of neighborhood stores with hardly a glance at the sky. They felt perfectly safe; the Germans hadn't been over London for months. It was a few minutes after nine on Armistice Day morning...
...there are no more Stardusts, no more of the old atmospheric Gershwin songs, no more of those simple, melodic, tunes like "Sugar" and "More Than You Know." Songs like those are not being written today, or at least I hadn't heard them. Then I played Billic Holiday's record of "Sugar" and Mildred Bailey's of "More Than You Know" on the phonograph and realized it even more acutely. Perhaps the radio and talkies had done the job, perhaps the demand for music for films, stage shows, juke-boxes, and all the other media through which the backneyed...
...Manhattan: The air-conditioned limousine he rode in broke down twice. She said she hadn't been in a dress shop since May 1940, denied that she bought 34 hats at Bergdorf Goodman. She beat him at a game of darts when they played at the Seamen's Church Institute. The Waldorf-Astoria said he made his own breakfast tea. At a broadcasting studio they laughed their heads off at Eddie Cantor. They arrived at Lady in the Dark 25 minutes late, chatted with Gertrude Lawrence in her dressing room. He wore out reporters in a fast five...
...year ago, when the U.S. Government began its clumsy effort to rearm, one prominent New Dealer confessed: "I wish we hadn't knocked off all the robber barons. The country sure needs...
Shoppers. In Petersburg, Ind., a woman shopper bought a coat, paid for it with a bag containing 1,850 pennies. In Benton Harbor, Mich., a woman who bought a dress in 1918 took it back to the store, complained it hadn't worn well...