Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadcasting "the last High Command communique of this war," the voice of Flensburg first saluted the German troops on the Vistula who had "gallantly" fought the Red Army "to the very last." To their commander went the last German decoration of World War II: diamonds for the oak leaves (with swords) on his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The voice continued...
...Every screwball with thick lenses and a long haircut is setting up shop as an expert on the returning veteran. If you wife or sweetheart runs behind a good, solid oak table when you finally go bounding in the front door, don't say we didn't warn...
Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. On the desk was a little oak plaque with three black buttons on it, to summon secretaries and stenographers. But whenever Harry Truman wanted a stenographer he would jump up, rush to the door and say, "Look, I want to dictate a few letters...
Reputedly one of the richest men in the U.S., his name does not even appear in Who's Who. He keeps oak-paneled, antique-furnished offices in New York, Chicago, Hollywood, Cleveland, Dallas, San Francisco, London. As president of the Music Corp. of America, he is absolute monarch over the careers of scores of celebrated radio and cinema stars. Together with the A.F. of M.'s James ("Little Caesar") Petrillo and Music Publisher Jack Robbins, he is "the supreme court of popular music." He is a small, greying man, 49, with a soft voice and meticulous manners...
Tonight at 9 o'clock, the Radio Workshop Players will present their third production of the term. "Fumed Oak," by Noel Coward. Miss Barbara Perry, Miss Jane D. Philbin, and Miss Mary D. Sarage, all of Radcliffe, and William E. Sullivan '45 will take the leading roles...