Word: sheltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dirt. In Spa, Belgium, famed for its mineral and mud baths, Sergeant Edward Shelton of San Antonio relaxed in non-G.L, therapeutic dirt...
...last week they had grossed $4,000 for their summer's work, and were planning to buy a tractor. Plywood and lumber mills at Shelton, 18 miles away, had bought every stick they could deliver, at OPA prices: $23 a thousand for mill logs, $35 for top-grade plywood "peelers.''* They brought in one scorched, dead Douglas fir which measured 9½ feet at the butt, was 210 feet long, sold...
...Shelton: "Because he lost his grip in Russia...
Vinegar-voiced Howard's "Board of Experts" are a help. They include his oldtime stooge, George Shelton; Jeeves-voiced Harry McNaughton, the "Bottle" of the old Phil Baker shows; and bawdy Lulu McConnell - veteran vaudevillians all. Their exasperating inability to answer timely questions. (Sample: Coffee rationing has been brought about by the shortage of what bean?) has been, for the past 15 months, a sanctuary for refugees from radio quizzes...
After a quarter of a century in & out of medicine shows, burlesque, vaudeville, Howard made the big time in Joe Cook's Rain Or Shine in 1928, hit $1,100 a week in Ziegfeld's Smiles, and then went to Hollywood with Shelton to store some of their deadpan senselessness in celluloid. Howard claims that "radio made a bum out of me" and he is reconciled to it. The hours are wonderful; he has to work only a couple of days a week; and for his unsophisticated radio audience there is no need to think up new material...