Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tries to switch the prospect to a high-priced model. For example, in Cleveland last week, a housewife answered a TV ad for "a brand-new Free-Westinghouse* sewing machine for $50." When the friendly salesman turned on the machine, it made so much racket she thought it would scare her children. When she complained, the salesman readily agreed, but he just happened to have a better machine in his car. The new machine (labeled "American Home" but actually a Japanese-made machine) sewed smoothly, had a set of attachments. The regular price, said the salesman...
There is, for instance, the one about the medical student who, during a murder scare, takes a ride on a crowded bus with a bulky package that proves, amid screams and general pandemonium, to contain a skeleton. There is the portentous purchase of the first stethoscope: "No, no. I think that's a little old for you, sir. What about this one? . . . Oh, yes. That's very much more you, sir. Comfy? Comfy?" There is the usual lecherous intern (named Benskin and known as "the ravishing reindeer") and the redheaded night nurse ("You succulent starched uniform with...
After deep soul-searching and some well-considered arithmetic, the movie industry is cuddling up to the little monster that gave it such a scare a few years ago. Items...
...love, and her immersion in stage life as a mime. As far as I can judge, the translation is a good one. The studied incompleteness of her style, which ends not in a statement but a suggestion, has been preserved, as in: "The broadest of broad jokes doesn't scare me, but I don't like talking of love. If I had lost a beloved child, it seems to me that I should never again be able to pronounce its name...
...commodity markets. Tension in the Far East touched off a wave of buying in tin, lead, zinc, rubber. Malayan tin rose 2¼? to 92? a lb., rubber to a new 1954-55 high of 37¼ a lb. Copper supplies were tighter than at any time since the scare-buying at the start of the Korean war. Reasons: a month-old strike at the big Northern Rhodesia mines, and rising European demand. Although copper prices steadied at 33? a lb. in the New York market. London was offering 44? and up. As supplies grew short, the U.S. Government refused...