Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bert Lahr, who's been on the boards since you used to sit on your father's lap at the neighborhood Burlesque, romped into town this week with a routine that sent a front row of bald heads rolling into the aisle and put a fold in the whalebone corset of someone's spinster aunt. Not since Stinky and Shorty pervaded the atmosphere of the Old Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like...
...great good humor, the Republicans sat back to enjoy the row. Their own primary was not expected to unwrap any odds-on candidate. But any Democratic discord was sure to brighten their chances in the fall...
When asked how he was doing in school, Tommie replied, "I won the State Reading Certificate two years in a row and the award for not being absent for five years." Then, as an afterthought, he added, "You can quote me on that...
Hours before the ceremony, Perón's descamisados (shirtless ones) had packed in behind the double row of steel-helmeted, bayonet-bearing soldiers who lined the 14-block Avenida de Mayo from the stone-columned Chamber of Deputies to the pink-plastered Casa Rosada. Some had camped there the night before. One Perón idolater had dragged a great, 100-lb. wooden cross from seaside Mar del Plata 300 miles away...
...quick sale, a quick repurchase by the dealer. But "used" 1946 models were so profitable that dealers competed ruthlessly to get them. Some dealers, ready cash in their hands, actually trail new cars through the streets of London. One day recently on Portland Street (London's auto row), a man had just pulled his new Sunbeam over to the curb to greet a friend when a dealer raced out of a nearby showroom and offered ?200 above list price for the car. The prize was worth the chase. A 1946 Armstrong worth ?991 new is worth...