Word: halled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take the case of the false teeth. A while back, somebody lost a set of dentures in the College area, and never turned up at the right place to claim them. He could have gone to a Lehman Hall office, or the Union, or all the Houses, or any of a considerable number of other places. But if he didn't hit the right one in the first few attempts--and he evidently didn't--it would have been more sensible for him to buy some new choppers...
THOMAS: ROCK OF CHICKAMAUGA (385 pp.) - Richard O'Connor-Prentice-Hall...
Into Atlantic City, NJ.'s Convention Hall last week trooped 5,000 ruddy, weatherbeaten farmers. As delegates to the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, they had come to listen, vote, sing such old favorites as A Bicycle Built for Two, and take in the sights. Many of them also had a shock. At home they had never seen such prices as they paid for meals in Atlantic City's restaurants...
Pickets. Outside Carnegie Hall, a handful of pickets trudged, bearing signs which read: "We protest the presence of Nazi collaborators in our concert halls." Concertgoers crushed past by the hundreds and though most tried to ignore the pickets, they did so self-consciously, some with annoyance, some defiantly...
Manhattan's critics had cleared their throats and sung an unaccustomed high C for Flagstad (see above). Next night, in a Carnegie Hall loaded with Met stars and singing teachers, they had to strain their voices again for a singer most of them had never seen, though they had heard her on records...