Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English gentleman who, on a wager, sets out to circle the globe in eighty days. So he packs up a couple of shirts and his valet and proceeds by train, sailing ship, balloon, elephant, windpropelled railroad car, and various other exotic means of transportation. Somewhere in India a love interest enters in the shape of a native--though properly British-educated--princess whom the travelers rescue as she is about to be sacrificed on her late husband's funeral pyre. There is even a second lastminite rescue when the valet is nearly broiled alive by some American Indians...
...Gilbert's distress, the lowly singing commercial-once denounced by Herbert Hoover, and banned from the air "in the public interest" by Detroit's WWF -now commands the talents of bigger names than his. Last month Frank (Guys and Dolls) Loesser entered the jingle-writing lists with a new firm, Frank Productions Inc., which boasts a creative stable dwarfing the credits of any Broadway musical: Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael, Vernon (April in Paris) Duke, Harold (Fanny) Rome and, for lyrics alone, Ogden Nash. On his heels came Raymond Scott, composer of Lucky Strike's Be Happy, Go Lucky...
...interest of good will," said the solemn voice on the radio, "the Hoffman Beverage Company feels compelled to make this announcement. It's simply this. All Hoffman flavors have that happy taste except sarsaparilla. We might as well come right out with it. We haven't quite hit that happy, carefree note in sarsaparilla. Now please don't misunderstand us. Our Hoffman sarsaparilla is absolutely dependable. It's trustworthy. It's loyal. But it just isn't what"we call happy. You take Hoffman orange. It's absolutely rollicking. Our lemon is almost...
...publik interest in a fonetik alfabet kan be expekted to have reatshed a point where more radikal prosedures are indikated. We would urge at that time the elimination of al double leters whitsh have always ben a nuisanse and desided deterent to akurate speling...
LOOSER MORTGAGE MARKET is in sight, and home loans will be easier to get in months to come, say Manhattan bankers. Reasons: demand for other types of credit is slackening, and higher interest rates are boosting savings, making more money available...