Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, to back up the designers, leading U.S. women were asked to make reassuring statements. Said Adela Rogers St. Johns: "The overdressed woman will be as unpatriotically conspicuous as though she wore a Japanese kimono." Cracked Irvin S. Cobb's daughter Elisabeth: "I'll cheerfully lose my skirt to keep our liberty...
...week's end, Carnegie-Illinois reported that the mammoth coal pile at its Clairton byproducts plant had shrunk to 200,000 tons, enough for only six days of operation. Shut for want of coke was the hot-strip mill at U.S. Steel's modern Irvin works. One by one, in the nation's industrial center, open hearths were banked...
Crazy with the Heat (lyrics & music mostly by Irvin Graham, produced by Kurt Kasznar) is the hastily doctored version of a feeble revue that expired a fortnight ago after seven performances. The doctoring has helped but hasn't cured. Good bits: the veteran Willie Howard, whose Jewish accent cannot be cut with a knife, as a ballet dancer; hot little Diosa Costello shaking everything shakeable in a scorching conga...
Keynote speaker was a noted surgeon, Dr. Irvin Abell of Louisville. The division of labor, he said, is clear. Any ulcers which do not heal with rest and special diets must be dealt with by surgeons. As for surgery, he went on, most experts believe it does little good merely to snip out the ulcer and patch up the stomach or intestine. For the incorrigible stomach keeps on brewing its corrosive acid. Most authorities hold that the best procedure is to cut out "three-fourths to four-fifths of the stomach." Since the stomach is primarily a churn...
...Irvin S. Cobb, a Democratic humorist who is serious about Willkie: "I'm getting just a little bit tired of voting for a family, even though it's such a busy, literary, military, oratorical, insurance-selling, financially successful family. I am, this year, going to try the experiment of voting...