Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred Allen you'll enjoy the show. As is usually the case, Jack Benny fuddles through a fantastic script to give a little entertainment, but also characteristic is the fact that Benny's supporting cast happen to be the sparks that put the whole thing over. Carmichael, his pet bear, is not an exception to this general rule...
...Washington. D. C., a census taker stumbled into a wooden shack, found a grizzled old man living with eight pet canaries. His name: Daniel Webster. His age: 74. His occupation: carpenter. His collateral ancestor: the late (1782-1852) Senator from Massachusetts...
...Deal-hating Senator Walter Franklin George of Georgia and his 1938 campaign (when the New Deal failed to purge him out of the Senate). Next was heard a loud bang from Atlanta. Roared Mr. Arkwright (after consulting Mr. Willkie): ". . . The Administration is now trying to smear Senator George. . . . Another pet hate of the New Deal is the utilities. This is an effort to smear both-to kill two birds with one stone, thrown underhanded." Mr. Arkwright then went further, denied things that SEC had not publicly charged: that Uncle George had 1) contributed to Senator George's campaign fund...
...substitute for religion and boy friends, she turned to Swinburn's poetry. Youngest son Frank, although his father's pet, was addicted to melancholy, once burst out: "Nobody loves me in my own house." There was friction between her parents, though it was oblique or hidden. A characteristic tiff came about when Mrs. Thomas, inspired by Tolstoi's My Religion, began giving handouts to any and all beggars. Said Dr. Thomas at last: "I admire Tolstoi in many ways, but he has no common sense, and he lives in the country...
...Congratulated his pet CCC on its seventh birthday...