Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remember the item in Miscellany (Dec. 10) which told of the Davison-Paxon Co., an Atlanta department store, getting an order for five Confederate caps from U.S airmen in Korea and accepting a $10 Confederate bill in payment...
Since that item appeared, lady barbers in Chicago, Fort Worth, Dallas and New York got in touch with the company to ask indignantly where the search had been conducted. The company also heard from...
...part suite, had more than just impressions; Composer Guion even worked in recordings of a Texas cricket singing, a mockingbird calling and a coyote howling. Among the other 13 parts were such plaintive songs as Buffalo Bayou Song and Wild Geese Over Palestine, Texas, an item entitled Ride, Cowboy, Ride!, with staccato hoofbeats, and for a climax, a low-down blues piece called High Steppin' Lula Belle May Ida Brown of Lyons Avenue Steps...
London's Sunday Express reported that King George VI had a new outdoor item in his wardrobe: an electrically heated waistcoat, made of khaki silk, ribbed with wires which feed from a pocket battery...
...weekly radio broadcast this week, Columnist Walter Winchell had an item of inside news: He had "been ordered to end all professional activities immediately by [his] doctors . . ." Later he added: "Two heart specialists have told me to take a complete rest for a month. [They] told me I am on the verge of collapse ... It is a terrific shock to me . . ." Next day Hearst's King Features, which syndicates Winchell in some 600 papers, tacked the news on the end of his column. The New York Post, which has been roasting Winchell in a series of articles (TIME...