Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie struck, and its residents imitate and envy the stars of the screen- though members of "downtown" society and the rich of Pasadena enjoy bristling at them and Los Angeles society pages go out of their way to avoid printing a motion-picture person's name. It is a city full of people from somewhere else and it still has little sense of tradition or of unity...
Kelley's voice hardened. "Isn't it the truth that you and Gubichev never were in love? . . . Is it not the truth that just one week prior to Jan. 14 you spent the night in the Southern Hotel in Baltimore while registered with a man under the name of Mr. & Mrs. H. P. Shapiro...
...Nazi soldier in hand-to-hand fighting near Brest, France ("I think I shot the Nazi, but maybe I missed," he says), and later had part of his right elbow blown off by a shell fragment. After discharge, with a plastic patch in his elbow, he changed his name from Tkaczuk to Kazak and began slugging his way up the minor-league ladder (Columbus, Ga.; Omaha; Rochester). Last week, with his .309 batting average making up for occasional fielding lapses, the Cardinals' Kazak was one of the leaders in 1949's "rookie-of-the-year" race...
...years, stadium concertgoers were more used to hearing Minnie make such announcements as ". . . and tomorrow night we will present one of the greatest names in music-Ezio Pinza Bass." On that occasion she made the show complete by putting on her spectacles, reading her notes and screaming: "Oh, no, that can't be right, that's the name of a fish. I guess it's Ezio Pinza, bass." The crowd also guffawed the night she told the echo of her own voice to shut up. Says Minnie: "When I hear them laugh, I know they expect...
...begun to teach school. He showed his verse to his wife, who liked it but never praised it. Frost kept this up until 1912, when he was 37; only then did he have enough money to buy passage to England for his family. As a poet he had no name whatever...