Word: neveral
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Metropolitan Opera last season. For eleven curtain calls she got cheers that rattled the railings in the standees' gallery. When short, tuxedoed Director of Productions Brook edged his way onstage, the bravos became boos. When Brook retreated smiling, Soprano Welitch came back for more cheers. She had never had to work so hard for them. In addition to other troubles, she had lost her seventh veil while trying to hook it, momentarily revealing an ample midsection and skintight, flesh-colored panties. Said she: "Dali doesn't know the opera. It should be all light, not in darkness like...
Last September, Glickman came across the record in his files. Says Lange: "It sounded like something I had never heard before. I was floored. But I knew that right there we had a hot hit." With its fast clippity-clop rhythm (actually a good deal faster than a burro's), it sounded like a poor man's Riders in the Sky. And with the U.S. hungry for what the trade calls "oat" or "popcorn" songs, Lange was right about the hot hit. After Vaughn Monroe, Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, et. al. had taken a ride on it, Mule...
Mule Train (loo, loo, loo) Mule Train (loo, loo, loo) Clippity-cloppin' over hill and plain, Seems as how they never stop Clippity-clop, clippity-clop...
Despite repeated statements by Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder that the U.S. would not raise the official price of gold (TIME, Nov. 14), speculators apparently followed the dictum attributed to Bismarck: "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." Over the past months, the speculators went right on bidding up the price of gold stocks. Last week, President Truman pricked the speculators' golden bubble. As long as he was President, he said, the price of gold would not be raised. Next day, speculators unloaded 13,900 shares of Homestake Mining, which dropped 3½ points...
...Democrat in the gubernatorial election, failed to support Hoover in 1932, acidly advised Fellow Kansan Alf Landon in 1936 to stay off the radio as much as possible. A rock-ribbed, prewar isolationist, he voted for the European Recovery Program, advocated the 48-hour-week and the open shop, never ceased harrying the New and Fair Deals with insistent cries for economy...