Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recommend that a place in the future plans of the above committee be given to a "Pops" night at Symphony Hall--long a Boston and a Harvard tradition. It would be fine if the entire ship's company could attend en masse--in couples of course. Why waste a shore leave...
...suspicion, deeply rooted in the civilian U.S., which was emerging slowly but surely as World War II developed. Was the professional military reaching for too much power, grabbing money while the grabbing is good? Item: to some members $500,000,000 more seemed too steep for new shore-based Navy works within the U.S. when everything seemed to be moving overseas...
Sewell Lee Avery, the 69-year-old board chairman of Montgomery Ward & Co., was bedded down with a cold last week in his apartment on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. This was the least of his troubles. The biggest was a mile away, at Ward's mammoth mail-order and retail stores along the Chicago River, where the employes were on strike, called out by C.I.O.'s Retail Employes Union.* The union claimed that 4,500 of the 5,500 union-eligible employes had walked out. Nonstriking employes going through picket lines were given the "Chicago cheer...
...boot. Orson Welles, as a nice parody of a magician, saws Marlene Dietrich in two and watches her better half walk off with the act. Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field, shouts a 1½-entendre salute to the boys through a meat-grinder larynx. Dinah Shore, singing I'll Get By over the short waves, soothes the entire planet in generously buttered mush. Ted Lewis talks through his top hat, and everybody who has ever liked Lewis-or John Barrymore -is happy. There are at least a dozen other acts, some of them all right...
...Arms (Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore; TIME, March...