Word: solider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jostling armies of liquid-eyed children still play in its filthy, glass-strewn alleys, its dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
...victory was roughly 4% of the vote-but it was enough. In nonpresidential years, the state had been Republican in every election since 1938. Herbert Lehman was one of the best vote getters the Democrats ever had, but Senator Irving Ives had defeated him in 1946 by a solid 251,000 votes...
...need them any more." He had imparted an oriental delicacy to such details as the hair and toes, but generally slurred over the major elements that better draftsmen are apt to emphasize: the thrust of a knee or elbow, the twist of a torso or the solid bulge of a thigh. Shining out against deep black backgrounds, his nudes had more flow than form...
...chore in 1945 on Theatre Guild on the Air. Then, two years ago, New York's WNBC signed him up to do Take It Easy, a half-hour (later expanded to 45 minutes) daytime disc-jockey show. His easy microphone manner and his new reliability made him a solid hit with both audience and sponsor. Soon, he picked up another show, the morning Melody Time. Last week one more was added: Inner Sanctum...
...travels to 135 Boylston St. gets his foot measured by Papa who insists that the lucky skier wear a properly ftting sock for the occasion. Having got a measurement of the customer's foot, Peter, or one of the boys, selects a "last" (the "last" looks like a solid wooden shoe tree with no hands) nearest the size of the measured foot. This "last" is carefully sanded down or built up with pieces of leather so that it emerges a working model of the foot...