Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week most of the first-magnitude folk in radio's great free-show firmament were in their places for the long winter evenings: Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy. The Philharmonic had arranged to broadcast on tour; a hallowed hush awaited Arturo Toscanini next week in NBC's starchy Studio 8H. Rudy Vallée, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were major absentees. There was no newcomer with the mature charm of 1938's prize find, Information Please, but radio 1939 turned up an idea that threatens to sweep the nation like...
...faints, cusses or thanks Providence the audience hears none of it, because NBC dares not take the responsibility for airing what goes on at rainbow's end. In Woodcarver Drouin's case, Ben Grauer reported that he had said: "I ought to buy that boy some lollipops." Next week the winner was a preacher, the Rev. W. H. Lash of Salisbury, N. C. At the parsonage, a female voice answered, showed no excitement over the message; replied that the Reverend was not at home. The Reverend won $1,000 just the same. If no one had answered...
...Next day in the House of Lords Minister of Information Lord Macmillan gave out details. Of the Ministry's famed 999, some 450 staff members remained to write and distribute propaganda. The new department took over 399 censors and press relations officials. By discreetly adding these two figures, the most doddering peer could realize for himself that only about 150 of the Ministry's personnel had actually lost their jobs...
...months later Dodge stockholders had assented to the deal and the contract was signed. Next morning Broker Dillon dropped in to see Motorman Chrysler at his office on Madison Avenue to find out when Chrysler would begin operating Dodge. "Hell, Clarence," replied Walter, "our boys moved in last night...
Transcendentalists complained that he was too practical ("Strictly speaking," said Henry, "morality is not healthy"). Religious folk called him an infidel ("One world at a time," said Thoreau when a friend came to his death bed to talk about the next world). "Practical men" called him a dreamer and escapist, were annoyed at his criticism of their pioneering ("a filibustering toward heaven by the great western route"). Poets thought him too science-minded, his language too earthy. Conservatives thought his Civil Disobedience revolutionary ("I do not care to trace the course of my dollar . . . till it buys...