Word: opening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...priest and to mumble. Anyone with a keen nose will smell it and find it dreadful! Christianity is not 'sacred'; rather, there breathes in it the fresh air of the Spirit. Otherwise it is not Christianity. For it is an out & out 'worldly' thing, open to all humanity: 'Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature...
...other Western papers. In Shanghai, his Alien Affairs Bureau ordered all correspondents, except those representing publications in countries which had recognized the new regime (i.e., Russia, its satellites and Yugoslavia), to stop filing cables. That left Hong Kong and Canton as the only major news centers in China still open to U.S. newsmen. Protested the U.S. State Department: "A crude effort on the part of the Chinese Communists to force recognition...
Supremely confident ("I think I will bust TV wide open"), Wynn was onstage all but five minutes of the half-hour show, grimacing in a succession of funny hats, outlandish garments and size 13 shoes. The fluttery mannerisms, Rube Goldberg inventions and falsetto giggles were the Wynn trademarks made popular by a long succession of musical comedies (Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 and 1915, The Perfect Fool, Hooray for What...
...Open Market. In Des Moines, enterprising Justice of the Peace Earl W. Rinehart, standing firmly on his rights, refused to build a partition between the bar where he dispenses 'justice, and the bar where he dispenses beer...
...Hawaii sells about 85% of its orchids for giveaways and other promotion stunts, but it is hard at work setting up "orchid bars" in U.S. stores to sell the flowers for as little as 25?. There are 21 orchid bars in the U.S. now; the newest one will open this week in Richmond, Va. While low prices have killed the vanda for the retail flower trade, Dible thinks that giveaway orchids are helping florists nevertheless, by making people who have seldom gone into florist shops more flower-conscious. Said one orchidman: "Why, eight out of ten women have never...