Word: hi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico City's radio station XEW by the first south-of-the-border broadcast of a big-time U.S.. program were Rumania's ex-King Carol, Mistress Magda Lupescu, U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith and wife Marion, pert Puppet Charlie McCarthy and Dandier Edgar Bergen. "Hi, horseface!" yipped Charlie, staring down from the stage at a U.S. Embassy attaché's small son. The audience guffawed, thinking he was addressing McCarthy-fan Carol, who has acquired that nickname in certain Mexico City circles...
...Irish Free State; and the Nobel Prize. As a Senator Yeats shunned the politterateurs for the men of practical affairs. He was proud of two bullet holes in his window which were a by-product of civil war; he turned an argument over divorce laws into the speech of hi. life, a "passionate protest ... on behalf of that small Protestant band which had so often proved itself the chivalry of Ireland." He was beginning to write, meanwhile, those "endeavors in cold passion" (the "Tower" period) which Hone compares with the third period of Beethoven...
...said Carter Glass" was owl-eyed, impressive Senate Secretary Colonel Edwin A. Halsey. Halsey bustled into snow-powdered Lynchburg on Friday with Rixey Smith, the Senator's secretary and Boswell. Surrounded by his family, friends, two physicians and three reporters, Carter Glass was waiting for them. "Hi, Ed," he said. "You're the United States Senate." Ed was. Solemnly Halsey intoned the oath, solemnly Glass intoned his response...
...recommend the United States seaman who, in the recent battle in the Barents Sea between a Russia-bound convoy and the Germans, having been torpedoed, was riding astride a capsized lifeboat, waving his arms as the other ships in the convoy passed him, and shouting "Hi-Yo Silver...
...Angels and many another derring-do flicker, the event was a victory over brass-hat morale builders who had wanted him to be a tidily uniformed entertainer. But to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who, since November 1939, have listened in weekly to an Empire broadcast titled Hi, Gang!, the U.S.A.A.F.'s gain was a loss felt from Iceland to New Guinea. For unnumbered U.S. servicemen have also been eager tuners-in to the show which Ben Lyon, his wife Bebe Daniels, and Vic Oliver have put on the air from London...