Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pistol-packing hussy in bustles, Betty takes a potshot at her wayward boy friend (Cesar Romero), nicks instead the wrong end of the local judge. While wriggling out of a jail sentence, she again flies off the handle, again dents the judge in the rear. In the last reel she does it a third time...
...tubas to tympani. But when husky Conductor Ben Swalin rapped his baton for attention, they scrambled to their free seats, got set to listen. Swalin gave them excerpts from Schumann's "Spring" Symphony (No. 1), a Mozart rondo, a serving of Vaughan Williams and Berlioz and a chicken-reel. Before each number, the musicians held up the instruments to be featured so the kids could see them. And when the last chicken was reeled the youngsters hollered for more. So did the grownups at a second concert that night...
...Angeles barflies were intrigued by a new diversion: automatic quiz machines. For 5? ginmill intellectuals could try to answer five questions of 6,000 printed on a motion-picture reel...
...televised account of the war in Europe as Eisenhower saw it is the first public showing of thousands of feet of film shot on the battlefronts of World War II by combat and civilian cameramen and hitherto withheld for security reasons. It will be presented in 26 two-reel episodes of 20 minutes each...
Retailers who had seen consumer credit dip during January, for the first time in three years, now thought that the easier credit would pep up sales. Said Bert Baker, Detroit's biggest used-car dealer: "I figure we can sell 20% more cars right off the reel...