Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning, some 30 barefooted, play-suited wives and daughters of Senators and Representatives answered the roll at the Congressional Club. They listened to a short health and diet talk by Mrs. Lodge, then followed her, in their various ways, through a strenuous hour of health dancing. They had been doing the same thing every Wednesday ever since Feb. 19. Said Mrs. Lodge delightedly...
...bottles" are tubes of paper-thin, transparent plastic (cost: half a cent each). They are packaged as a roll of sterile tubing, sealed at intervals. Mother snips off a piece of tubing with sterile scissors, fills it, fits a sterilized nylon crown and rubber nipple over the open end, and squeezes out the air. The baby feeds with little effort: the milk flows easily. Nurse Allen thinks it is "the nearest approach to breast feeding...
...Fabulous Dorseys (Charles R. Rogers; United Artists), a not so fabulously good movie, is another in the biographical series on U.S. musicmakers (Till the Clouds Roll By, Night & Day, The Jolson Story, etc.). As the Dorsey parents, Sara Allgood and Arthur Shields turn empty roles into sincere performances, and brothers Jimmy and Tommy manage to impersonate themselves without noticeable strain. But there is no mention of the expensive Frank Sinatra, who once sang for Tommy (1939-42). And the famed Dorsey feud, which absorbs a good deal of the story, finally becomes as tedious...
...distributing organization. By this stroke M-G-M got entry into the many phonograph shops which sell Zenith radios, hopes to sell their records in 5,000 key stores. But MGM's first album, four ten-inch records of Jerome Kern music from the film Till the Clouds Roll By, will cost $3-75, somewhat higher than most of Victor's, Decca's and Columbia...
...Till the Clouds Roll By and The Yearling (both...