Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breneman's restaurant with a wide Rooseveltian grin on his face. Inside, Jimmy had just made a broadcast announcing that he would run for governor of California. His studio audience surged out behind him, still munching their free ice cream cones, and gathered around to gawk at the show. On the sidewalk a three-piece band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again, a tumbling team cavorted and square dancers twirled in the rosy glow of neon signs. In the midst of it all stood Jimmy, bald, tall and toothpick thin, bending low to pump a hundred hands...
Just in time for the thoughtful gift buyer, a Manhattan store last week staged a fashion show for dogs. Solemn, patient hounds and other beasts of impeccable pedigree paraded the latest nonsense in trappings: an evening coat sprinkled with sequins (modeled by a French poodle), banker's grey herringbone coats for town, polo coats for the country. For delicate dogs, there was a red raincoat with matching hood to be worn with waterproof leather boots. Coats had a pocket, placed aft of amidships, for a handkerchief, of course. Hats included an item bedecked with pussy willows, another with...
...maneuvering Spitfires were not the only show of strength which Great Britain had staged to impress China's Communists, whose armies had swept up to Hong Kong's borders. Across the harbor from Hong Kong island, on the flinty, weatherworn mountain of South China's Kowloon peninsula (which the British rule under a 99-year lease), men of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and the King's Own Scottish Borderers were training to the peak of battle efficiency. Said a brisk regimental commander: "We know our enemy, and we are ready...
...uses more direct quotes than in any other chapter. Like the other articles, this one is well-documented and factually correct. Button was angered at an early ago by the prediction of an impatient teacher, who said he could never learn to be a figure skater. His determination to "show" this teacher ultimately led to his international success...
Hillbilly music will be broadcast over WHRB for 12 hours beginning at 8 p.m. tonight from Studio B, in Dudley Hall. The program is open to the public with a half hour show for the studio audience...