Word: intervale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When our OBs went to war we began recruiting OGs. In that interval our office girls established themselves and their own traditions. Like U.S. military school plebes sent to fetch "the cannon reports" or "a yard of skirmish line," new OGs now have to find out the hard way that...
A recent study of 28 of our former office boys showed that after a decent interval seven had become writers, nine were executives in various business departments, and five were salesmen or junior salesmen in the advertising department. One of the few tapped by Managing Editor T. S. Matthews for...
Through fellow Glaswegian Paul Vincent Carroll (Shadow & Substance) she finally landed a job as an understudy in The Divorce of Lady X. The producer of her next show, East Lynn, proposed after three days' acquaintance, but she decided to wait "a decent interval," got around to marrying him three...
Two minutes and 44.6 seconds later Airborne, the rank outsider, romped home to win. As an exasperated bettor somewhere flung down his morning copy of the Times, the dampness underfoot seeped across the words of an article already part of history. "The 163rd Renewal of the Derby Stakes," it said...
Last week, earnest Ed found the Byrnes stand-in one whirl too many. In a letter to the President, he announced his wish to retire from history, and declared (a trifle dizzily, perhaps) that the job of organizing the U.N. was completed. After a decent interval for surprise and protest...