Word: score
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week 770 out of 1,094 convention delegates had been picked (number of votes necessary for nomination: 548). Nearly half of the delegates were either 1) undecided, 2) pledged to favorite sons, or 3) silent. Those who were committed or unofficially pledged made the first ballot score read: Dewey, 202; Stassen, 143; Taft, 108. Those who were open to persuasion were talking more & more about Senator Arthur Vandenberg...
...year-old prostitute who has strayed from her normal beat; or he wakes a P.W. just returned from Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains for money or food . .." ". . . Discharged P.W. wants pair of pants; gives money or potatoes." This is illegal barter, but every neighborhood has its own Brotbaum (bread tree). Berlin in this...
...Jerome Kern score has not lost too much of its charm, and in such a tune as Look for the Silver Lining has not lost any. The dances, as arranged by Richard Barstow, at times have a gaiety that is both real and reminiscent. And there is something almost touching about the unabashed Cinderella plot-the little dishwasher who winds up as a hit in the Follies...
...estimated $5,000,000 buying up the voting preferred stock which controls the long-bankrupt New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail Road Co., recently reorganized. When the management of the New Haven finally began to suspect what was happening, it was too late. Last week Dumaine told them the score: his group controlled more than half the New Haven's 391,000 active shares of preferred. An additional 62,090 shares are held in trust and there is question whether they can be voted. Thus, Dumaine thought he had enough to elect 11 of the 16 directors...
...They've showed they can score, and they have improved with each game. One of these days they may regain prewar form." Springfield won the League on one occasion years ago and occasionally produces All-Americans...