Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month ago, his grateful Finns made up a pool, paid for his air passage for a visit. Armed with hundreds of lollipops for the children, McAllister went. He saw nearly all his families. The children had been taught to say: "How do you do, Uncle Bob. Welcome to Finland." Last week McAllister returned happily to the U.S. and to his lonely one-room apartment in The Bronx. He hoped to save enough in two years to visit Finland again...
...much would it cost to build a modern opera house and restage the entire repertory? Billy's guess: $20,000,000. His proposed test question for every Met production: "Will it interest a man in the first mezzanine who saw High Button Shoes last night and is going to see Mister Roberts tomorrow night...
Each contestant will read a short speech containing key words: oyster, oil, saw, idea, Long Island. Presumably, the girl who most consistently approximates erster, erl, sawr, idear and lonGUYland will be the winner...
...cold spirit. You produce, or you don't get your pay." At Ebbets Field, under the arc lights, the band played Michigan as the 900-man Michigan Club of New York gave Bob Chappuis a scroll wishing him "the best of luck." But Chappuis, the top Dodger name, saw little action: he had missed three weeks of practice to play in the All-Star game (TIME, Aug. 30), and didn't know his Dodger plays...
Added Eddie Arcaro: "Citation sort of waited for him and when he saw Papa he began to eat himself up. You're always a little worried, but I was never worried that I didn't have enough horse under me. He can beat any horse in any part of a race...