Word: starter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were only a starter. After them will come some 500 other artists-divas and dowagers, prodigies and spaghetti tenors, world-famed violinists and pianists, European celebrities and art-conscious radio crooners-all intent on their big moment before the nation's most exacting (and jaded) high-brow musical audience. The Manhattan recital season was off again last week to its characteristically chaotic start. At the box office, Manhattan's ticket salesmen were jubilant. As in 1917, they reported a recital boom...
Triple-threats aren't scarce at Hanover, either. Meryll Frost may not be a starter against the Crimson, but he will be very much in evidence before the battle is over. A crafty Junior, Frost does everything well and is probably the speediest member of the Green backfield...
Describing a "pep talk" given by MacLeish to OWI field officers at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel, O'Donnell printed in full the $6-a-plate menu, smacked his lips over "a bar with Martini, Manhattan and Daiquiri cocktails, plus scotch highballs for a starter, a dry white wine with the fish, a sturdy burgundy with the meat and all topped off with coffee and liqueurs, cigars and cigarets." Afterwards a "visiting fireman of war information" remarked: "And now I'm supposed to go back home and tell them we all must sacrifice and reduce our standard...
Take the end posts, for Instance. Where most college teams are crying for a man with anything that looks like flank ability, the Quakers are blessed with three veterans, Captain Bernie Kuczynski needs no introduction. He was a Varsity starter in his Sophomore year, and his offensive play is as good as Crimson linemen will see all year long...
...world is likely to be run by the U.S. Army. Last year A. & P. grossed $1,378,000,000, Sears, Roebuck grossed $976,000,000. This year the Army's post exchanges will gross about $350,000,000 (in domestic U.S. alone) and that figure is only a starter...