Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money Talks. Hardheaded, hard-fisted William L. Clayton made his first major pronouncement since he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of U.S. economic policy. With a refreshing scorn for diplomatic doubletalk, he told the Latin Americans not to kid themselves about that policy in the postwar world...
...assassins, the scraps were saved by a loyal official, handed over to Mandel's devoted mistress, blond, Junoesque Madame Beatrice Bretty of the Comédie Française. Now, with Madame Bretty's permission, they were published in Mandel's old paper, the Rightist L'Ordre...
...regrets about the passing of the building were expressed, although Gerald L. K. Maslon '45, chairman of the almost published '45 Senior Album, mourned the destruction of the Holabird murals which adorn the Album offices...
...1900s, when song promoters sang and whistled their merchandise in New York's East Side tingel tangels (German beer halls) and tried to make themselves agreeable to burlesque headliners, variety artists and minstrels. Today 540 of them throughout the U.S. pay dues to a union (the A.F. of L.'s Music Publishers' Contact Employees) and earn from $150 to $1,000 a week. With a trade jargon all their own, they classify themselves as "payolas" (the affluent and gift-bearing), "car men" (those with limousines to transport bandleaders) and "sitters" (who operate exclusively in night clubs...
Sample sentence from the test: "Again he mused, 'These laryngeal effulgences, I suppose, are the sine qua non of ethereal broadcasting.'" The NBC versions of key words: uh GEN; myoozd; luh RIN ji'l; i FUHL j'n s'z; suh POZ (not spoz); SI nee kwa NAHN; i THIER i'l; BRAWD kasting...