Word: labels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People say I can see a Penney label clear through a stone wall"). After two hours he called it a day, with $45.60 in sales to his credit. Said Founder Penney: "This is the place I dreamed my dream in. This is where it all started...
...critic has reached a new low; indeed a contemporary belief remains that there exists nothing creative about good criticism and that the foundation of success on the printing press depends on whether you serve Mr. Atkinson, Mr. Barnes and Mr. Gibbs with Haig and Haig or indifferent Walker Red Label in generous doses before curtain time...
...Dunster Dunces have made recordings of fourteen of the more popular songs in their repertoire on the Trans-Radio label, Charles S. LaFollette '51, director of the group disclosed last night...
Unlike the Oxford Dictionary of American English, which set out to record all words ever used by Americans (the project on which Editor Mathews served his apprenticeship), the Dictionary of Americanisms includes only those stamped unmistakably with the label "Made in U.S.A." To find them, Mathews plowed through the 100 volumes of the Colonial Records of New England, searched back issues of The New Yorker and TIME, followed Li'l Abner for months. He read the diaries of Cotton Mather and those of a Civil War housewife in Montgomery, Ala. He consulted scholars and experts, from...
Mario Lanza is a curly-haired young (29) movie singer who confesses breezily that he once scraped the label off a Caruso record and substituted one with his own name on it to get a part in an Air Force show. He can afford to be breezy now. After his first two movie roles (in That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans'), Hollywood has cast Tenor Lanza as The Great Caruso, and Hollywood is inclined to feel that Caruso is doing well to get his name in the title. Meanwhile, so far as the new crop...