Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here's a suggestion for the manager of some theater to try: there are no tickets; there are half a dozen windows, open an hour before the show. You pay your money and walk in, and that's all. Why not ? UPTON SINCLAIR Monrovia, Calif...
...afraid of the lard. In the South of France lard is used to absorb the odor of flowers for perfume, and in this dinner it is used for the purpose of absorbing the odor of onions, mushrooms and celery with wonderful effect. Without the full half pound of lard the dinner is no good." Chess Cakes. "These are tasty morsels of early Americana, the recipe inherited through the generations and quite generally retained exclusively within the family. I have never seen a chess cake recipe published." Fish Lolo. "Lolo is Fijian for the juice extracted from freshly grated coconut...
...service as a member of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, manager of TVA's power operations, head of the War Production Board. At 38, he was the youngest officer in the Cabinet, a hard-driving New Dealer who quickly mastered Interior's operations and spent at least half of his time in the field, brushing up on department problems at first hand...
...argued that Airman Crommelin was famous as a flyer and fighting man, and that Crommelin's impetuous and reckless revolt against civilian control had made him the darling of half the officers in the service. It seemed quite possible that a court-martial might make him both a hero and a martyr. It was certain to stir up new publicity (Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, U.S.N.R., had rushed a New York lawyer to Washington to defend Crommelin...
...hoped that, after a half century of democratic American tutelage, the Philippines had been made safer for democracy than any other country in Asia; last week's national elections for a new President and Congress rudely upset that hope. Not everywhere were conditions as bad as in Occidental Negros Province; U.S. correspondents found that in Manila, the capital, balloting on the whole seemed to be honest. But in most other parts of the islands, the elections were marked by fraud, intimidation and violence...