Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steadiest job-seeking callers at Producer Janney's offices since the start of the Communist trial had been Carol Nathanson, a willowy, 26-year-old singer and actress who works under the name of Carol Nason and dabbles in party-line dialectics. Like many a show girl...
...exuberant, mellow-voiced George H. McLain, the husky, 48-year-old Los Angeles promoter, who is the self-appointed leader1 of California's aged, was ready. McLain, a former Ham & Eggs organizer, who sometimes kneels in public to show his followers how he prays for them, was already making five radio speeches a week over 22 stations, setting up a vast precinct system to "protect the old folks against future dangers." California faced the biggest political fight in years...
...week complained of a problem: when it defends the Labor government against its critics, the British Socialists use it as evidence that the anti-Socialist Economist has all but gone Socialist; when it criticizes the Labor government, anti-Socialists in the U.S. cite the Economist as an authority to show that Socialism is no good. "From this dilemma there is only one escape," wrote the Economist, "and that is, for once, to give both sides of every medal...
...Riviera, Amateur Painter Merle Oberon dropped into Lord Beaverbrook's villa to show one of her seascapes to Amateur Painter Winston Churchill. "What are those little white specks?" asked Churchill. "Sailing boats," replied Merle, unabashed. Said Churchill, recovering gallantly: "You have a nice eye for color." Then the two looped arms and went off for a swim...
Looking at this good news, some overeager optimists crowed that the recession had reached bottom and that things were already on the upgrade. Most businessmen, eying the continued slump in department-store sales, took a "show me" attitude. They thought it would be well into the fall before anyone would know for sure whether the pickup was only a seasonal summer rise, or the start of a general upsurge...