Word: proms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drinking U.S. synthetic rubber and smokeless powder plants, which in 1944 downed about 90% of the domestic sugar, grain and molasses alcohol supply, have been searching feverishly for more & more industrial alcohol spigots. Almost equally fervent has been the Pacific Northwest's hunt for new industries with postwar prom ise. Last week, in one happy stroke, the Government got its spigot and the North west its new industry...
...Counihans moved to Washington, where Bud worked for Hearst and the sisters had to finish their education at a public high school, Anita was profoundly humiliated by her family's reduced circumstances. One of the most important evenings of her life was the one, at a Georgetown prom, when she saw the reigning model of the day make a conquest of the floor. She decided immediately, she remembers, that if that was how it was done, she would do it. That decision led her swiftly onward & upward to New York and a job as a Powers model. Arrived with...
Eventually Bud, along with Jim Lanigan and the McPartland brothers, got diplomas from Austin. It was an honorary move that highlighted their appearance at the 1942 Senior Prom...
Constance Bennett, wide-eyed prom queen of the jazz age, gold-plated honey of the cinema since 1924's Cytherea, scored heavily in her role as a mother. Now 38, she won for her 14-year-old son, Peter Bennett Plant, a $150,000 cut of the estate left by the second of her four husbands. At present the wife of ex-Cinemactor Gilbert Roland, she first married a University of Virginia boy, had the marriage annulled; next married Manhattan playboy Philip Morgan Plant, got a divorce and a $1 million settlement; next married and divorced the high-styled...
Lucille Ball plays the part of a "bathing suit girl" actress who attends the Winsocki Military Academy prom to rejuvenate her position in the eyes of the public. Complications arise at the dance when a host of souvenir-minded girls succeed in ripping off a good portion of Miss Ball's attire. As an unpretentious bit of comedy, "Best Foot Forward" is a success because of its ready quips, uproarious scenes, and music that Duke Ellington would describe as "solid...