Word: pal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks ago a pal bet Alf 10 shillings and two gallons of beer that he couldn't grow a beard and keep it on till Easter. Alf figured the bet was a cinch, because he had grown a beard last summer and none of his bosses had said a word. This time, however, Brewery Manager Jack Redmund (who had been Alf's officer in the territorials during the war) issued an ultimatum: "Shave it off or work inside." A brewery executive explained: "We didn't feel that the growth of the beard upheld the prestige...
...Alley's tunesmiths can match the havoc wrought by a gum-chewing Oklahoman named Jack Owens. He has an assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...
Stanley sees through Blanche's yarns and posturings at once. When he finds her snootily trying to wreck his marriage and slyly trying to hook his pal, he gets the goods on her and lets...
Appointee William Dee Kendrick, 40, of Fairfield, it seems, is a boyhood pal of Folsom's. The Governor thought it was rather a cute trick on his opponents...
...woman's angle" was covered with grim intensity. Because Hollywood's Cobina Wright Sr. was an old pal of the groom, Cobina got an invitation to the wedding-the only one on his list to a private U.S. citizen. She coolly capitalized on it by signing up with Hearst's International News Service. I.N.S. hardly got its money's worth. At a Palace reception, she was so overwhelmed by all that jewelry "that I can scarcely remember so much as the color or cut of a single gown...