Word: sendoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organ grinder may make as much as 20 pesos from such notoriously open-handed patrons as drunks, lovers and tourists. But his steadiest customers are the poor. When the shoeshiner's family takes a trip on the second-class bus, the cilindrero plays Las Golondrinas at the sendoff. He performs at dances for those who cannot afford to hire mariachis or fancy bands. When at midafternoon he shuffles into the big patio of a working-class tenement, children shriek, dogs bark, chickens scurry around, and women drop their housework to listen to his loud, lively songs. Then coins drop...
Later he became the paper's editorial writer and parliamentary correspondent. Last week, when his appointment as editor was announced, the competing Irish Times (circ. 38,000) gave him an Irish sendoff: "The fact that he was given the job so young might suggest that [De Valera's party] hoped to have somebody pliable. If so, they could not have made a worse choice . . . Whether he will be able to keep his political master in order remains to be seen. But certainly they will not be able to muzzle...
...Weaver of Dreams (Nat "King" Cole; Capitol, 45 r.p.m.). Crooner Cole gives a better-than-average love song a bestseller sendoff...
...Dynel will be to wool what nylon is to silk." With this glowing sendoff Joseph G. Davidson, president of the Chemicals Division of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., last week showed off blankets, socks, draperies, knit goods and imitation fur made of the newest synthetic creation of Union Carbide (manufacturers of Bakelite, Prestone, Vinylite...
...This morning . . . University students are being asked to give the Welverines a rousing sendoff as they leave for New York to meet the Black Knights of Army tomorrow afternoon . . . sure, the team will be "Up" for tomorrow's game anyway, but let's be up with them this morning...