Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frustrated American males last night came relief in the form of a Newark draft board, which dourly foureffed America's big noise of the year, a loved-up character known as Frank Sinatra to most and Oooooofrankie to a select few who poured over $6,000 in the till of the R.K.O. Boston last week when crooner Sinatra came to sample of the bean...
...rivers of six per cent beer and small talk that ranges from post war planning to post mortems on the current collapse of the Nazis, compose, rewrite, and assemble news stories up to that awful time known throughout the profession as the deadline. In order to join the select company of Hu Flung Huey, Michael Mullins, and others, candidates will go through a six week competition in which they must prepare to acquire the scent for news, follow the elusive vapor to its source, and report the results in readable prose...
...President's respectability: "Respectable, but not popular. [It] is the smallest, as to circulation, of the four New York City morning newspapers. . . . Its daily circulation [is] 293,304; its Sunday circulation 546,705. The paper is the mouthpiece of the New York-and-vicinity genteel moneyed crowd -the select coterie which feels that things British are superior to things American. . . . How did the Herald Tribune get to be an Anglomaniac newspaper...
Company Easy, small but select, finds itself deep in the heart of Harvard. Coming into this sanctum of erudition from culturally sterile waste lands ranging from Chicago to the South Pacific was quite a shock...
...1920s, when U.S. prosperity was at its crest, the lives of the young Americans who had transplanted themselves to Paris had three fixed points-the Dome, the Select, the Rotonde. To these world-famed cafés, at some time or other, came all American exiles: Ernest Hemingway, Elliot Paul, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, Robert Coates...