Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been used in the starting lineup this year and are not out of the fight yet. McCann, in fact, is probably the number seven man. As it stands now, Cordingley, Dickerman, Graves, Davis, Peddle, and Macgowan look like Coach Hodder's nominees to face the Elis, but anything can happen by the weekend...
...opinions whatever these may be. This right is naturally limited by any contract into which the individual may enter which requires him to spend part of his time in occupations other than expressing his opinions. Thus, if a salesman, a postman, a tailor and a teacher of mathematics all happen to hold a certain opinion on a subject unrelated to their work, whatever it may be, none of them should devote to oratory on this subject time which they have been paid to spend in selling, delivering letters, making suits, or teaching mathematics. But they should all equally be allowed...
...takes the show. But, if you don't bet on Benny and aren't Fred Allen you'll enjoy the show. As is usually the case, Jack Benny fuddles through a fantastic script to give a little entertainment, but also characteristic is the fact that Benny's supporting cast happen to be the sparks that put the whole thing over. Carmichael, his pet bear, is not an exception to this general rule...
First of all Tokyo newspapers broke into one of their unison chants. One thing which must not happen, they said, is "military action by powers threatening The Netherlands Indies ... or even temporary protective measures." Japan would protect the islands from such protection...
Other things happen to Sepp. He has argued now & again with his intelligent, stodgy, Communist son; by his neglect he has brought his wife to suicide. Without at all realizing how, he has brought himself free of the reverential, abstract chilliness which inhibited his music. At book's end he sits hearing (over the radio), the first performance of the first great music he has written, the Waiting-Room Symphony...