Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nominated in the Bond. In Paris, Tenn., Earl Underbill, in jail for auto stealing, and Robert Jackson, in jail for forgery, offered to marry the first two girls who would put up $3,000 bail fof their release...
...first glance last week, Major General Vaughan seemed to have resigned himself to a roasting. As he entered the jammed committee room it was possible to conclude that only by oversight had he failed to put parsley over his ears and an apple in his mouth. His 240-lb. torso was encased in lashings of brass, gold braid, ribbons and other ceremonial military finery, and he eyed the investigating committee nervously, as if he expected each man to pull on a chef's hat and test him with a fork...
Harrison kept right on crusading in his column ("At the Capitol'') in the New Mexican. He has put the finger on an attorney general who was drawing a salary as a corporation lawyef on the side, exposed an unpardoned felon who was serving in the state senate, complained about the potash industry's "free ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue...
Able, splenetic Sir Thomas Beecham had once disdained the Scots as "damned fools to throw away ?60,000 on a festival." But on opening night, before a jammed audience in Usher Hall, he was right there, ready, and with Franck, Sibelius, Brahms and Berlioz, he put on as good a show as ever. When he waved the men of his Royal Philharmonic to their feet on the fourth curtain call, they sat still; he howled at them in mock fury, then turned to the delighted audience: "You have observed, ladies and gentlemen, that this orchestra has every sort of virtue...
Jolson Sings Again (Sidney Buchman; Columbia) is the predictable sequel to The Jolson Story, which three years ago became, to almost everybody's surprise, a smash boxoffice hit. The Jolson Story had wide repercussions in show business. It put the old Jolson songs of the '20s on the nation's jukeboxes. It gave Jolson himself, sixtyish and almost forgotten, new fame & fortune...