Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each floor presented a new row of costumes lining the hallway until we reached the fifth floor. Inside a low ceilinged room there were baskets of shoes. Our costumes were arrayed along a clothes bar near a mirror. Everyone did their best to find something that didn't smell too old and that fairly approximated his bulk until four of us were dressed as herdsman, one as a cook, and others as villagers...
...turn. Before the curtain went up on the third act of Napoli, the ballet master pointed out our places. We stood just behind a row of ballerinas draped along the edge of the stage. One of the group twirled the end of a rope near a ballerina who was still stationing herself. In a slightly hurt voice and in uncertain English she pouted "a-a. .pl-eese." Four of us practiced pulling a cart decorated with flowers across the stage. This was to be the finale. "Now just relax ourselves," said the ballet master...
...city editor of the Los Angeles Mirror-News, gets out copies of major speeches as much as 36 hours in advance. Another unusual press service has been offered by New York Timesman William Blair. At Nixon's first press conference in Indianapolis, Blair sat in the front row and held up a small microphone that led to a miniature wire recorder in a shoulder holster. Since then the reporters have been checking their quotes with Blair's machine, and even the Nixon staff has regularly consulted "dicky bird," as the newsmen dubbed the gadget because of the chirping...
Speedup. The slide took place while the economy boomed on-except for farm prices, which edged down ½% from mid-August to mid-September (the third drop in a row). Steel production blazed at 100.6% of capacity. Business outlays for new plant and equipment will hit a $38 billion annual rate in 1956's final quarter v. $31 billion last year. For the auto industry. 1956 would probably turn out to be the third best year on record with production of 6,286,000 units, behind only...
John McCormack, majority leader in the House, thanked her bravely, and launched into an attack on appeasement in the Middle East. He was interrupted by a booming voice from the third row. "Did you want another war?" a heavy man with a bald dome surrounded by a white fringe cried. After the movie cameras had swung around, he repeated the question. McCormack continued. "Answer the man," cried a man in the first row and then another from the corner. The audience waited for an answer, so the majority leader asked if the man wanted another Munich. Two policemen walked over...