Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Felix reported a run on picture postcards. "Some of the boys will stop at nothing to impress the grader," he was quoted as saying. "There's one in particular--shows a statue of some Indian appealing to the Great Spirit--selling like hot--cakes...
...Gracie Fields's version arrived in Manhattan, the biggest shipment of foreign records ever to hit the U.S. Gracie wouldn't have the place to herself. Bing Crosby, Kate Smith and Eddy Howard all managed to put the song on records before Jimmy Petrillo, by putting a stop to all U.S. recording, got off his own variation on Now Is the Hour...
...John Hodiak, Dennis O'Keefe and Amos 'n' Andy's Freeman (Amos) Gosden, who are better than average players. Next to Augusta's Masters' Tournament, which is the great Bobby Jones's personal party, Bing's pro-amateur championship was the stop most top golfers least wanted to miss. Last week, an odd crew of 172 contestants trudged foursome-by-foursome around California's treacherous Cypress Point course on Monterey Peninsula-and came to the awesome 16th hole...
...union audience didn't take kindly to her remarks, but they listened. And when, after the speech, Mrs. Wulff got an anonymous threat in the mail, that didn't stop her either. Nothing could. She talked on street corners and at over 100 rallies. Eventually, Norma Wulff, the mother of two grown daughters, talked herself into a seat on the school board. Four years ago she became the first woman president of Cleveland's school board...
Such a guinea pig, of course, would have to have an air of freshman-like innocence and a convincingly slight knowledge of nineteenth-century European history, so I set to work at once. The letter which Cramer had sent to a College club was necessarily vague, so the first stop was to phone the number on the letterhead for further information...