Word: lorring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was I," sings the jilted bride in the old music-hall song, "waiting at the church. Lor', how it did upset...
Liquor stores did a rush trade. Practically every Canadian who wanted a drink had the price of a bottle, though it came high. The turkey supply was spotty; there were plenty of birds around Winnipeg, but few in southern Alberta, where growers were holding out lor fatter prices at Christmas...
...down nags. Hibernating in the stalls there, the gyps nail up blankets and newspapers to keep out the cold. The swank comforts of Hialeah and Santa Anita are not for them. But this year, for the first time, the gyps went south for the winter. A race track, refurbished lor them, opened in the pine woods 16 miles from Tampa. Even its name was magic to shivering gyps: Sunshine Park...
From then on Oliver Morosco was one of the nation's most spectacular showmen. From a succession of Broadway hits including The Bat and Peg o' My Heart (with a glamorous new star, Laurette Tay lor) he made more than $5,000,000. But an 18-year-long plagiarism suit over The Bird of Paradise dogged most of his career, and in 1923 he was neck deep (though later cleared) in a $2½ million stock swindle involving his vast theater holdings. About that time, his shrewd judgment of box-office began to fail him. After passing...
Welcome Committee. The lieutenant was, in fact, a guest of the Army. The most elaborate machinery ever devised lor refitting fighting men had begun to roll, and he was among the first to go through it. Developed by the Army Air Forces, the new program is called, in typically tongue-twisting Army language, the A.A.F. Redistribution Center. Two "stations," at Miami Beach and Atlantic City, are in operation. Others are planned for the Midwest and the West Coast...