Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, cash-heavy war workers are making a big splash, but mostly in noisy, smoky, gaudy places which look like overgrown Bierstuben. At the big Bowery Club trumpet-mouthed Martha Raye draws over 1,200 customers nightly to break house records. Almost all Detroit nightclub customers are factory workers; small individual checks are bolstered by a door charge. At the uppity Club Royale executives are coming back after months when they were too busy on war work to gallivant. Burlesque strippers disrobe before ever-growing audiences. Only complaint of the operators: kitchen help and waiters are hard to find...
Gathering in a swampy, overgrown field east of the Business School, about 75 roughly-dressed students met Monday afternoon between 5 and 6 o'clock for the first active session of the Harvard guerrilla Unit...
Harvard, to this City Hall defender, is no big overgrown colossus, but an irresponsible, arrogant institution, that has to be tolerated since "education is a necessary thing." Mickey will talk any time about the underhanded way Harvard forced hundreds of people out of their homes in order to build some of the Houses, or the way the college sits complacently by paying nothing for the expensive upkeep of streets and sewerage. Yet his most stinging criticisms are saved for the students themselves. "Students of yesterday were honest, but that's not so today. They're more snobbish than they used...
...replace "G. W. T. W."-is the story of the hectic convalescence period of a notorious overgrown child prodigy and man of letters who finds himself forced to spend a few weeks in the home of a harmless Midwestern family who really didn't deserve it. Between efforts to run his unwilling host's family, a prodigious and somewhat weird literary activity, and a passion for making himself disliked, our hero unleashes a stream of wisecracks and stream a mass of bewildering situations that hasn't been matched...
...climax Maryland's acidulous Millard F. Tydings stood up. The war was going badly; Senators were mad at each other and at the country; Tydings was sick of the whole business. Out came all his long-pent bitterness. The Government was "an overgrown monstrosity from top to bottom"; strikes should be stopped; Wendell Willkie should get a war job; Dean Landis was the wrong man to head the Office of Civilian Defense; the war debt would be terrific; aid should be sent to General MacArthur; perhaps MacArthur should have been in Singapore in the first place...