Word: strays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life. When she was a sober little girl of 13, she was given free piano lessons by a teacher in the Juilliard School. Her teacher got sick-the lessons stopped. She kept on studying the classics herself, but to relieve boredom, now & then sneaked in a few stray blue-notes and hot syncopations. This became instinctive to the point of a wonderful vice...
Besides belaboring commercials and Mutual, Morgan is now carrying on a feud with Hearst, gently calls many a stray character "William Randolph." As a result, the Hearst New York Journal & American forgets to list his programs...
Violation. In Rome, N.Y., a stray buck deer jumped through a window into a cocktail lounge, nearly struck a sign reading: "No Stags Allowed...
...about five minutes she came out again, waved her arms, and more waiting vehicles drove off in the opposite direction. After a short time they all came back. These operations were repeated several times very smoothly until a big dog came along. The dog ran in front of the stray ambulance and began to bark. The woman in slacks called other women in slacks, but they couldn't get the dog out of the street since he was a big fierce dog. But none of the women fainted...
Five years ago, explained Mme. Hempel, she had met a stray dog in the park, whom she christened Brownie. Brownie was a very hard dog to get to know, wouldn't let her get near him. Finally she began taking him food, leaving it for him under the bush. Between them they worked out a system: Brownie waited till she was gone, then carried the box away to another spot-always the same one-some distance away, where he removed string and paper, opened the box, ate the food and left the empty box for Mme. Hempel...