Word: scourings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Circus Ring. The dealers now scour the nation for cars, literally hunting in packs. From the gas-short East, cars are being sucked to farm and war centers in the Middle and Far West. A business that often smacked of the medicine show has skidded into the circus ring. In New York, the backlog of cars, stored by owners who now ride subways, is still great. There, cars are bought on sight, over the phone, by mail. In big splashy ads, out-of-town dealers scream of amazing prices. One dealer even tooted his horn in Chinese...
Others were not so fortunate. Axis U-boats still scour the central Atlantic in packs, trying to break up Allied convoys en route to North Africa. North American coastal waters several hundred miles out have been cleared of subs, except for an occasional lone scout. But in the old North Atlantic graveyard, convoys to Russia and Britain suffer systematic and heavy attacks. Sixty-seven sinkings reported last week brought the war total up to 3,801 ships sunk, of which 2,029 were Allied ships. So far, 63,154 seamen of all nations have been killed or are missing...
Newsmen write almost anything. They scour the University for interesting or queer professors. They can cover athletics, talk to coaches. They interview backstage. They probe and investigate and expose. All this is open to the news candidate...
...Toole, the Confederate heroine of the national best-seller Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Paramount's Cindy Lou (Mary Martin) is an out-of-work Broadway chorine who scurries to her ancestral Southern home after learning that a Broadway director (night-blooming Don Ameche) is Dixie-bound to scour the South for a sure-nuf Southern belle to play the lead in a Broadway musicomedy. She gets the job after butting into a swimming pool a rival actress with a very high cruising speed...
...nothing new under the sun is TIME'S reference (Dec. 30) to experiments of Dr. Robert Marshall Stephan with urea to combat tooth decay. Gaius Valerius Catullus, about 2,000 years ago, wrote: (Ad Egnatius, Canto XXXIX) ". . .We know the Spanish custom, how Spaniards clean their teeth and scour their gums with the same water that issues from their bladders. ... If your teeth are clean, we know how you have used your urine...