Word: looka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene. Crushed together, reporters shouted their questions; photographers climbed on the bar, on tables, stools, railing, on each other's shoulders for height, and, with flashbulbs crunching underfoot, shouted orders at their victim: "Hey, Grace! Looka me!" "Stand up, Grace!" "Take it off, Grace [the hat]!" Other photographers, crowded out onto the deck, whammed their fists against the glass wall to catch her attention. The conference got so out of hand that a pressagent shouted: "Please! Please! Behave like ladies and gentlemen!" Another cried: "This is a press conference, not a riot! Unless you back up and give this...
Chicago's Clinton Specialty Works has a toy electric vacuum cleaner that gathers dust ($12.95). One doll has hair that "grows" by means of a winding device hidden in the head; another, "Joan Pa-looka" from the comic strip, is permanently scented, comes with baby powder and soap ($7). A new method of rooting hair in the scalp makes many dolls safe against countless hair-brushings and curl ings - until brother comes along with his toy barber...
...just a front man here," he likes to explain, dredging up an old political story about a man who wanted to be postmaster. The man could not read or write so he was rejected. "Looka here," he protested. "I'm not asking to be assistant postmaster-just postmaster!" Di Salle adds that when he took the job all he knew about the price situation was that 1) his wife Myrtle thought prices were far too high, 2) he once represented a few businessmen against the old OPA, and 3) in an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1946, he spoke...