Word: kickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kick out of passing out some cards Brigadier General Wallace Graham had brought down from Washington. In large type the cards read: "Don't Go Away Mad." In smaller print: "Just Go Away...
Come, Sweet Death. All this is said with such politeness that many people may put down this little book without fully realizing what a deadly kick in the teeth of western culture it is meant to be. If culture is what Eliot says it is, and can be nothing else, then it is plucking at the coverlet in Britain and virtually dead everywhere else, including the U.S. But this is exactly what Eliot's Notes says-that another Dark Ages is just around the corner...
When it lost money in the next six years, its passengers darkly suspected the Pennsy of milking its stepchild by overcharging for the use of its Manhattan terminal and East River tunnels. In 1940, the Interstate Commerce Commission found some truth in this. It made the Pennsy kick back $5.6 million of these charges to the Long Island, and make a new contract that trimmed a million a year off the rents...
Reiner didn't get quite the cast he had in mind, but the cast he faced across the footlights was one that no conductor could kick about: big-voiced Leonard Warren as the fat Sir John himself, brilliant young Giuseppe Valdengo, who made his first big U.S. splash as Lago in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast of Otello, Soprano Licia Albanese and Mezzo Cloe Elmo...
...Chrysler was aware that competition was back with a vengeance. It planned to kick off its new models with the biggest advertising campaign in its history. Every major U.S. newspaper has been carrying full-page ads, and the splurge in Canada will be "the greatest ever conducted by a U.S. corporation." There, four major magazines will carry twelve-page color inserts. Said a Chrysler executive: "We are proceeding as if the buyer's market is already here...