Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought . . . that those strips of foil were called "window" (singular), and that we dropped them . . .to get the enemy's damned radar-controlled searchlights and guns off our actually large formations. . .It was kind of comforting to hide behind a "window" screen-with the big accurate flak laying on the tin foil below and behind us, rather than on the steel foil armor plate we were sitting...
...elevator, walked across the street to a drugstore, bought a container of Coca-Cola, and carried it back to his room. Asked why he did not order from room service, Boettcher demanded indignantly: "And pay the prices we ask here?" Frequently, he would be spotted behind a screen in a dingy tailor shop while his trousers were being pressed. The Brown Palace's valet fees were too high...
...advice came not a minute too soon. The Republican Convention had proved that most people's unretouched faces look terrible on the TV screen (TIME, July 5). Helena Rubinstein leaped into the breach with television preparations suitable for statesman or starlet...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...