Word: pal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Allen went to war in July 1942, Partner Drew Pearson had given his pal a touching sen-off. "I shall miss Bob," wrote Drew. "But . . . he'll be back handing out brass rings, punching the tickets for rides on the old Merry-Go-Round." Every so often, during the war, Drew would write a letter to Allen-for all the 18,000,000 readers to see. What Pearson did not tell the readers is that when Allen went to war, Pearson offered him what Allen considered so small a share of their column's income that Allen...
...broadness of burlesque, it has the brightness only fitfully. Its verbal humor is too scant and too feeble. The luridness, at times, seems used for corn rather than comedy. The heroine-a predaceous, flinthearted little heel, a kind of sister to John O'Hara's Pal Joey-is too harshly drawn for this kind of jamboree, too poorly drawn to rise above it. Before the evening is over, the constant thump and slambang of Billion Dollar Baby becomes a little fatiguing...
...Wild Bill Davison, who blows the horn out of the side of his mouth; zoot-suitish Clarinetist Joe (Little Sir Echo) Marsala, Drummers Dave Tough and George Wettling-all members of ragtime's Valhalla (Chicago branch) who have kept on playing jazz the old way, even after their pal Benny Goodman called it swing and made it a million dollar baby. There were no music stands or orchestrations to be seen at Eddie Condon's. "That's for organized slop," Eddie said...
Prosecution's Pal. The witness was sworn, squeaking his answers in Japanese. His name was Machitsura* Hashimoto, his "present occupation is the pleasure of the court...
...Commonly known as "Iko," a nickname meaning "companion" or "pal...