Word: lather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheerfully, year in & out, recitalists plunk down their hard-earned cash, practice themselves into a lather, suffer stage fright and accept their inevitable financial trimmings with a smile. Some are music teachers or locally famous virtuosos, in small U.S. cities, who hope to take home a batch of favorable press clippings. Some are second-rank European artists who hope to enter the U.S. concert world by Manhattan's tricky revolving door. Some, like Clarinetist Benny Goodman, Cinemactress Jeanette MacDonald, Radio Singer Lanny Ross, are successful popular artists who cannot resist a yen to compete in the long-hair trade...
...Balkan lather of ethno-pathology two facts bristled last week: the turmoil in Bulgaria and Rumania approached open insurrection; German activity in the Danube Valley was concerned with more than the recruiting of new divisions for the Russian front...
...Department, of all people, put on a soap opera last week. Aimed at the countless devotees of radio's endless "strip shows," it was unusual only in its subject matter and its freedom from the verbal lather of commercials. Its name: Chaplain...
...Soapmakers are using more & more crude soybean oil because, like palm-nut, olive and coconut oils it can be made into an excellent lather-maker which produces suds even in salty sea water...
Japan was still in a lather of indecision last week. No sooner had President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill suggested a military conference in Moscow than Dictator Stalin accepted and announced that he was making arrangements as fast as he could.* At once Japan, which has spent the past months unable to make up its mind about anything, found itself faced with a new enigma-Vladivostok. Probably U.S. supplies for Russia would be routed to Vladivostok. The Japanese General Staff began to see possibilities of an Allied pincer threat toward Japan based on Vladivostok and Singapore. As of last week...