Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...area and lunched His Majesty in a village restaurant. In deference to them he went without his usual midday Scotch & splash, drank wine with the meal (oysters, roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck pâté, salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long as we keep on the way we are going now, we won't need to worry about...
...should like to see the palace turned into a home for people fallen on evil days at the end of their lives. If they had ten bob [$2] a week-or even less-they could come here and live in a nice house with a common room and a pleasant garden to walk in. ... One cannot let a bishop's palace any more than one can let a vicarage; that is one of the penalties we pay for Establishment. ... If I were allowed to move into a smaller house I should be better off... despite the fact that...
...band of embattled brothers, up rose the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce because of an alleged slur on Philadelphia's hotels. Casus belli: A Fred Allen radio program in which he and Program Guest Jack Haley reminisced about a little troupers' hotel in Philadelphia. Mused Haley: "My room was so small, when anyone opened the door, the doorknob got in bed with me." Allen: "My room was so small the mice were hump-backed...
...favorite singer, he was practically unknown in the U. S. Egg-bald Laholm, 40, an ex-boxer and heavyweight title holder in the U. S. Navy, exchanged his everyday toupee for a luxuriant blond Nibelung mop and took the stage as Siegmund, leaped upon Hunding's dining-room table like a tomcat after a mouse. His singing, less athletic than his jumps, was fresh and youthful, with less of the buzz saw than most run-of-the-mill German-style tenoring. His semaphoric acting bore witness to his Navy training...
Radio got him first. In 1921 he went to WJZ, then merely a sort of cloister off a ladies' rest room of the Westinghouse factory in Newark. For $40 a week he sang, played the piano, operated the Ampico player-piano, announced, told bedtime stories, recited Uncle Wiggly, read the Sunday funnies. Since those days, many an NBC announcer has come & gone, but Milton Cross is still on the job, an NBC standby...