Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eager to carry the load of committee chairmanships and organization. With their lack of cohesive force, liberals have drifted in countless directions and allowed the privilege of their majority to fall into disuse. Far from a redpurge is the real solution. Rather it is the reawakening of cream-puff liberals--the formation of a solid front which will assume the rightful leadership of a majority...
Basically, beagling is a spectator sport. Except that beagle-bugs run a little faster, puff and stumble a good deal more, there is little difference between chasing a hound that is chasing a rabbit and chasing a golfer who is chasing a golf ball. But beaglers, unlike golf fans, are mighty etiquetty. Their exclusive fraternity has honorary degrees, liveries and other traditions that date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth...
Radio News, neither pulp, puff-sheet nor good red herring, is one of the Ziff-Davis group of magazines for mail-order scientists (Popular Aviation, Popular Photography, etc.). Managing Editor of Radio News is Karl Kopetzky, who prides himself on having learned journalism from Walter Winchell. During the early war days, Editor Kopetzky listened to Murrow in London, Grandin in Paris, Jordan in Berlin, etc., was struck with the costly time devoted by U. S. broadcasters to innocent prattle about London weather, etc. With the unfailing suspicion of a Winchell-bred newshawk, he dispatched an undercover...
...puff) 'Keesss - uh - meee -uh! (Takes a stance now, pauses dramatically, then lets drive) 'Yuuuh-gay-ay-ay-nuh!' Now, I ask you, gentlemen, if the proposition were put up to you in that fashion - would you?" Ever since he whanged the piano in Harvard's "Gold Coast" dance band a dozen years ago, Hollywood's Charles Henderson has felt that a ditty is no place for a diva. When he got out of Harvard, Charlie Henderson started studying the business of crooning in earnest, as Rudy Vallee's pianist. When...
WMCA's ardent promotion department photostated two such puff-items, crayoned a big "SCOOP!" across the layout, ran it as an ad in the trade press. Week later from the Federal Communications Commission (James Lawrence Fly, chairman) came a curt order to WMCA to show cause, within 72 hours, why its license should not be revoked...