Word: mall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mall Returns Arriving...
...effect, fired. It had offered to carry on for as long as it took to find a successor, but American Tobacco wasted no time in finding one. Effective forthwith, it named Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. as the new agency for Lucky Strike advertising, turned its Pall Mall account over to Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles...
...mood piece" was probably the best by any of the 103 reporters in the Abbey; the New York, Times's Veteran Drew Middleton's was perhaps the best from the streets outside, where scores of newsmen covered the processional route. Buffeted by the surging crowds along the Mall, Middleton was lifted up by their surging spirit, as "a river of scarlet and gold and steel flowed through the shabby, cheerful masses of Britain. . . . For a brief moment the pace of the strident, terrible 20th Century was slowed to the trot of cavalry horses...
...Bones." Movie Veteran Adolphe Menjou was delighted with himself. Settling back and lighting up a Pall Mall, he readily admitted that members of the House Un-American Activities Committee could not have found a better witness. As it happened he was "a student of Marxism and Stalinism and of its probable effects on American people." He was also "a Red-baiter," he added cheerfully. "I make no bones about it. I'd like to see them all in Russia. I think a taste of Russia would cure them...
...Westminster Abbey, had a special motet to compose for the ceremony. Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King's Musick, was working out three trumpet fanfares. Painters were sprucing up Buckingham Palace, which still showed the ravages of war. Electricians were studying ways & means to bathe The Mall with light on the great night...