Word: pours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...listeners in radio's history. Cause: Miss West had turned the Biblical story of Adam & Eve into a burlesque act full of drawling double-entendres, elliptical references to fig leaves and nakedness, talk of the "original applesauce." No sooner had the program closed than angry comments began to pour in to the sponsors (Chase & Sanborn), the broadcasting company (NBC), the advertising agents (J. Walter Thompson). The National Legion of Decency threatened to clean up radio. Some Chase & Sanborn customers threatened a boycott. "Bad taste," mourned the Motion Picture Daily. Such terms as "profane," "filthy," "obscene," "vomitous," burst from such...
Although France is mightier than Germany, Nazis have managed to win and keep allies by sabre rattling, while France finds it necessary to pour out millions of francs to buy and keep her allies in Mitteleuropa. Last week French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos continued upon his planned swing through Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia (TIME, Dec. 13). He was treated much like a visiting butter...
Presiding over his radio program of incredibilities, Robert Leroy Ripley beckoned to the microphone a tubby lyric tenor who had played obscure cinema parts. Listeners heard a thin voice with forced higher registers pour out "O Pari-diso" from L'Africaine, one of the favorite arias of the late great Enrico Caruso. Announced Mr. Ripley: "You have just heard the voice of Enrico Caruso Jr.- believe...
...never saw such lovely bright pennies as they were. Brighter I'm sure than when they came from the mint and none of us got sick from eating that apple butter. Our favorite way of eating it was to put it on nice brown buckwheat cakes and pour over all plenty of rich sweet cream. Did you ever...
From 4 to 6 o'clock there will be a tea in Brooks House, to which all Freshman proctors and deans have been invited, as well as the Class of 1941. Mrs. Delmar Leighton and Mrs. Shafer Williams will pour the tea, and, if the turnout of Freshmen is in proportion to last night's reception at the Union, the pourers will be kept very busy during the afternoon...