Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remainder of the article I find very informative and as a whole quite correct. . . . I find the high spot in the statement telling how President Smith shares his working hours with the pastime of "slyly popping bonbons into his mouth." It may also be mentioned that he can always be noticed stroking his goatee with his left hand...
...other deputies (80) abstained. Abstention by the Communists got them out of their embarrassing spot as partners in debate of the Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It was also a fairly safe move because last week the radio to Moscow developed bad static, and neither Communists nor anybody else could discover what the Russian line was; Russia has not yet rejected the treaty...
Down through the years, they have kept the traditions of their ancestors. They still use oxen to work their farms. Nearly half of them still speak Gaelic. A sign proclaiming "Cead Mile Failte" (a hundred thousand welcomes) greets visitors at Keltic Lodge, famed tourist spot near the entrance to Cape Breton's Highlands National Park...
Report Uncensored, an exposé of Chicago's juvenile delinquencies, is the brainchild of WBBM's pressagent, Don Kelley. He suggested it as a summer filler for the Lux Radio Theater spot. "Okay, but make it interesting," said CBS Vice President H. Leslie Atlass. Kelley...
...illuminate the sex, sin and Scotch with which he claims Howard Hughes and his press agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard and emaciated as the result of a near fatal plane crash, can hardly...