Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refuted his arguments, pointed out that 134,000 was scarcely an inundation, amounted to less than a fifth of one percent of the labor force. But McCarran's allies carried on. For nearly six hours, Washington's garrulous lightweight, Harry P. Cain, held the floor with a low-grade filibuster. The D.P. opponents talked on, counting on the dwindling attendance to aid their cause. At one time, only one Senator was left on the floor to hear North Dakota's William Langer...
...Soft & Low. This unremitting little mountain warfare was disturbed last week by a new voice from White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. It was soft and low, but it was the voice of John L. Lewis. He had a message for "the able Mr. Green." Making no mention of his own many troubles (his 385,000 striking coal diggers are making little headway), John L. proposed that the A.F.L. join with him to help Phil Murray's C.I.O. fight against "the giant adversaries which would decimate one by one the major units of organized labor...
...smell (ugh) coming from a dozen cheap bars, or the odor (delicious) issuing from the kitchen of the Old Venice Pizzeria. Few things about Hanover street are calculated to make the Dartmouth fugitive nostalgic. The Old Venice does it bit with cheese, tomatoes, clanti, and low prices...
...Easy Living" at the Keith Memorial, the story of pro football in which Vic Mature kicks around Liz Scott; "Jolson Sings Again" at the Low's Orpheum, Larry Parks as He; "Come to the Stable" at Loew's Publix, Celeste Holm and Loretta Young as Sisters; "Pinky" at the Astor, Jeanno Crain portrays a light-skinned colored nurse; "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" at the RKO Boston, Donald O'Connor proves he's not my boy; "Savage Splendor" at the Pilgrim, exotic Africa in garish technicolor. Walt Disney's "Ichabed and Mr. Toad" is back up on Tremant Street...
...orchids for giveaways and other promotion stunts, but it is hard at work setting up "orchid bars" in U.S. stores to sell the flowers for as little as 25?. There are 21 orchid bars in the U.S. now; the newest one will open this week in Richmond, Va. While low prices have killed the vanda for the retail flower trade, Dible thinks that giveaway orchids are helping florists nevertheless, by making people who have seldom gone into florist shops more flower-conscious. Said one orchidman: "Why, eight out of ten women have never had an orchid. They all want...