Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year emphasis on the male lead has been shifted from glamor (Robert Taylor) to talent (Fred Astaire). With George Murphy and Eleanor Powell (survivor of the two previous Melodies), Astaire taps his way through a half-dozen nimble numbers, including Begin the Beguine, some more recent, less inspired Cole Porter tunes. Frank Morgan chases ungrateful files de joie, who try to make off with the ermine wrap he lends them (for the evening). An uncredited comedienne (Charlotte Arren) squawks Arditi's Il Bacio as it has never been squawked before. But the best part of Broadway Melody...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--The drum major of the Harvard College band, Theodore L. Sendak '40, of Gary, Indiana, tonight announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for joint representative from Lake and Porter Counties in the Indiana General Assembly...
Naval Hero David Porter thought the process gave "a sensation both harmless and agreeable, producing a pleasant glow or heat somewhat similar to that which is felt on entering a warm bath." Less battle-hardened sitters found it as painful as primitive dentistry. "I was taken in by Browere," wrote Jefferson to Madison. "He suffered the plaster to get so dry that separation became difficult & even dangerous. He was obliged to use freely the mallet & chisel to break it into pieces and get off a piece at a time. These thumps of the mallet would have been sensible almost...
...thank you for giving Stanley Walker more salary. But how self revealing you are when, in an attempt to hold on to $1,000 of TIME'S money, you resort to the ancient device of calling names and take refuge behind a purported statement of an unnamed porter given you second hand. How far short you have fallen in the art of accurate reporting the following affidavits by two Evening Public Ledger executives will make all too plain...
...undersigned, Ellwood T. Maull, do hereby swear that early in November I instructed the porter supplying paper towels to the Editorial Men's wash room on the third floor of the Ledger building to discontinue the use of the middle of three- paper dispensers installed in that room...