Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, at any rate, would not stand for anyone lighting any verbal fires on their navels. The Soviet Union did not send delegates to London...
...Betty knows perfectly well what she can do, and she knows what her fans expect of her. It has been said that the Grable legend is so secure that she could play an entire picture in an iron lung (Technicolored, of course) and send her admirers away happy. This might be true, provided she could remain her buoyant blonde self, complete with legs. When she tried to hide behind long skirts and a prim Victorian manner in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, the faithful were outraged. Many of them got the word and stayed away altogether; more than 100,000 others...
Things Went Black. Three hours later, the Russian consulate in New York invited newspapers to send men to an unprecedented press conference. As soon as reporters walked in, it was plain who had gotten Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina. She was in custody of Jacob M. Lomakin, the handsome, blackhaired Soviet consul general. She was a plump, nervous-looking, middle-aged woman who wore a floppy-sleeved blouse, a black skirt, turquoise-colored bobbysocks, and red shoes. Lomakin announced, happily, that she had endured a rare ordeal and that she was about to describe it-through an interpreter, of course...
...woman began talking. The interpreter, translating, said that shortly before she was to have sailed for home, a doctor named Korzhinsky had approached her in the street and whispered: "You should not go to Russia-they will send you to Siberia." A little later a man named Leo Costello had lured her to a park bench on Riverside Drive and had deftly plunged a hypodermic needle into her arm. Then everything had gone black...
...pull down $20,000 in purses in a May-October season, but 60% usually goes to a car owner. Cash, however, is not the chauffeurs' only reward: women of all ages go overboard for the midget sport. They keep scrapbooks, write fan letters, pester drivers for autographs, send them gifts of helmets, goggles, gloves. Once at Danbury, Conn., two elderly ladies bustled down from the grandstand, thumped crack Chauffeur Ted Tappett on the head with their handbags because he had beaten their favorite...