Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young "Nyrin" became the society's most vocal member. In a drab little shop, whose dusty windows bore the society's name in proud gilt letters, the committee met each week. Around the bare table sat 30 miners, some straight from the pit, the coal dust still runneled into their sweat-sticky faces. Bevan always spoke precisely and to the point. He had suffered from a bad stammer (caused by an uninformed but successful effort to "correct" his left-handedness), but had overcome it by reciting Shakespeare out loud and forcing himself to speak up in public...
Like many a Broadway and Hollywood contemporary, Actor Kawarasaki had a tickling Marxian social conscience. He organized a new Kabuki troupe called the Zenshinza (Forward-Looking Theater), set up shop in a sleek, modern playhouse outside Tokyo, defied tradition by hiring women actors to play female parts and began mixing Western dramas with the Japanese classics. When V-J brought democracy officially to Japan, Democrat Kawarasaki was ready with a full-fledged production of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME...
...Legislative Yuan in Nanking. There was only scattered applause. When Sun announced he would resign the applause was much louder. Most of the lawmakers had already decided that Sun Fo and his cabinet, who had split Acting President Li Tsung-jen's government by setting up shop in Canton, were delaying peace with the Communists...
...first hit the novelty big time last year with their Atomic Whirler hats -beanies with two or three pinwheels fastened on top. They sold about 3,000,000 whirlers and grossed about $700,000. Onetime employees of a Manhattan hatmaker, Ben & Joe set up shop for themselves twelve years ago. After losing money making standard boys' hats, they converted to novelties and in rapid order produced such nifties as Charmies (beanies dangling 24 small plastic animals), Easy Money Beanies (with five shiny new pennies attached), and hats with faces on the crowns. All were "pretested...
...best the Crimson could do all day was to pick up fifth place in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a team composed of Norm Watkins, Shop Brown, Bob Berke, and Joe Fox. Rurgers and Duke placed first and second in the event...