Word: polye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week roly-poly (200 lb., 5 ft. 8 in.) Harry Gokey, 71,. retired vaudeville trouper, made his bid for No. 1 U. S. professional Santa by booking a round of Clausing (at $5 to $25 an appearance) in Portland, Ore. private homes and clubs. It was his 51st consecutive...
Last week the New York Board of Estimate wrangled over Tugwell's new capital budget. Covering the period 1942-46, the capital program called for $246,843,969 of capital improvements, $219,253,000 to be paid for by borrowing. With items: $17,000,000 for schools, $16,000...
In Missouri there was one of the biggest upsets in the State's political history. For years Lawrence McDaniel, a roly-poly, wisecracking, dependable Democratic wheelhorse, has missed big victories by a hair. Once he was almost mayor of St. Louis. This year he resigned as City Excise Commissioner...
Prancing into Manhattan's Loew's State theatre last fortnight went all that is left of big-time U. S. vaudeville. It was a troupe of seven energetic young cinemactors and actresses led by a columnist-Hearst's triple-threat Hollywood gossip dispenser, roly-poly Louella O...
From Swansea, in Glamorganshire, to Southend at the mouth of the Thames, and all along the south coast of Britain, last week newsmen had passably good seats at the Battle of Britain. At Dover was the greatest concentration. Newsmen in tin hats and civilian clothes took their stand on Shakespeare...