Word: irma
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shortly after we had printed a story you may remember. It told how Farmer Paul Rhinehart of Peacock Station, Va., had offered a house and $100 a month to a Polish D.P. named Marian Zielezinski, who had arrived in the U.S. a fortnight before with his wife Irma, their two baby boys, two suitcases and nothing else...
Room for Lots More. In Peacock Station, Va., Farmer Paul Rhinehart, 76, stood before a rachitic barn and pointed to Marian and Irma Zielezinski, who were feeding a yardful of clamorous chickens. Said he: "Here I was with 600 acres of the best land in northern Virginia. I just decided to get ahead of Congress in this building-a-new-world business...
Zionist Organization--Judith Gordon '50, president; Arline Landy '49, vice president; Irma Lewis '49, secretary; Marjorie Krensky '49, treasurer; Ann Shapiro '51, regional delegate...
Hard to Believe. Irma's characterizations are cut to the measure of the cast. Every one of the actors looks and acts his part in & out of the script. Most astonishing of all is Irma herself, Cinemactress Marie Wilson, who has been playing the role of a dumb blonde for so long that she now lives the part. Marie's fluffs at rehearsals and on the air are daffier than anything a scripter might imagine. "She is so much like Irma," says Sy, "that I have to rewrite the things she says to make them believable...
...typed in capital letters. There are other difficulties, too. Once, when the program was on the air, Sy waved a frantic cue at her from the director's box, and Marie dazedly waved back. Another time, when a special speech by Senator Taft forced cancellation of an Irma broadcast, Sy broke the bad news: "Senator Taft's coming on in place of us." Marie stamped her foot and pouted: "You promised me, no guest stars...