Word: neighborhood
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Bambi is filled with the laughter of children, and their voices speak for the animals. Their genuine laughter was recorded by running off some Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck cartoons at the Disney studio for a group of neighborhood children. Thumper's all-boy voice rates an Academy award. It belongs to a youngster named Peter Behn. His dialogue was recorded early in the five years it took to make the $1,600,000 Bambi. Brought back for retakes several years later, Master Behn scarcely got his lines out before his voice changed...
Under present war conditions, more over, the cost of printing a large June Red Book, in the neighborhood of $3400, would be unjustifiable, especially with lead and paper shortages. The total price for the book will be $2.50 and Freshmen who signed up at registration for a Register or a combination Register Album subscription will have their accounts adjusted accordingly...
Best example of how the chains set compliance standards is in food retailing, where the U.S. has some 600,000 outlets, ranging from carload-lot supermarkets to one-man neighborhood shops. Only 40,000 (7%) of these outlets are owned by chains (A. & P., Safeway, Kroger, etc.), but they do a potent 33% of the business. The five largest chains alone, with about half the chain outlets, handle two-thirds of the chain volume. This, says the Department of Justice, means that "the food chains are in a position to dominate the food industry." If that...
...year when he was the world's greatest Negro tenor. The farm is wealthy Tenor Hayes's proudest possession. He calls it Angelmo (a word he coined from angel and mother), parcels it out among other Negro families to teach them the joys of independence. Among the neighborhood whites he is respected; he gives one charity concert a year in nearby Calhoun...
Possibly the most moving passages in The Song of Bernadette give account of the conversion of Werfel's archskeptic, one Hyacinthe de Lafite, a neighborhood patrician. In his youth, an arrogant atheist" individualist-poet, he had not bothered even to visit the newborn, crowded shrine. But now in his old age he confronts in Lourdes's hospital the full weight of disease and death, and is reborn into the mysteries of his childhood. As Lafite, a cancer pregnant in his throat and his weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille...