Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uncle Row could remember the days of his slavery, and the time when his part of Texas was rich cotton land. He could remember the Yankees coming down the road "all brass buttons and bayonets," remember the uncertain years while the family that had owned him disintegrated and disappeared. Uncle Row stayed on, farming a little, a good hand with horses and stock. He hunted wildcat, bobcat, polecat, foxes, coons, possums and rabbits. Nights, he took a coal-oil lantern down to the Keechi Creek, baited up with rabbit entrails, fished all night long. Uncle Row could catch catfish, when...
Jack Barnaby's varsity squash team goes on its first road trip of the season for a pair of weekend intercollegiate matches with Amherst and Dartmouth today and tomorrow...
Herb brings to the air a nasal drawl, a collection of Hoosier wheezes, and a relaxed view of the news that is reminiscent of Will Rogers. His apprenticeship was served in traveling vaudeville shows ("I used to get $40 a week and all the road maps I could eat"), and as a front-line sergeant-entertainer with the Third Army in Germany. Through an interpreter, Shriner tried out his humor on the Russians. One joke they laughed at: "The mail service in our unit is very good. The mailman delivers packages to us as fast as he can smash them...
Impertinent Obbligato. Since the Israel Philharmonic played Hatikvah (the Jewish national anthem) at the inaugural of the State of Israel in May, the orchestra has given 70 concerts, 23 of them on the road. Actually the orchestra is older than the state; it was known as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra when Arturo Toscanini led its first performance twelve years ago. Tel Aviv's Ohel Shem hall, where the orchestra usually plays, holds only 1,100. There the orchestra repeats each concert nine times to accommodate the crowds. It has played on, undismayed by blackouts, air raids, or the impertinent...
...Jean Abel Gros (pronounced grow) first saw the famed pre-Christmas parade of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. 13 years ago, he got an idea. A showman with a small boy's taste for shows, Jean Gros, 54, had spent years building up a marionette road-show business. He had lost it all staging a grand opera with puppets (75 singers were hidden behind the curtain). He decided that if he could get huge balloon figures like Macy's, and somehow design them to fit under trolley wires, he could stage such parades...