Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street and to classes in knee-length shorts. The Class of 1045W (for war), biggest freshman class (1,059) in Yale history, sweated at the biggest freshman rally. In substance, if not in form, life at Yale was much as usual last week. The college took in its stride its first summer opening and a new "Yale Plan," which compelled the student body to join up for war service to the last...
What coughers in the audience are to indoor concerts, honking horns, backfire, the drone of airplanes, the crash of thunder and squirpling crickets are to summer concerts. Most audiences and musicians have learned to take such incidental orchestration in their stride. But at Vancouver B.C.'s open-air pavilion, Baritone John Charles Thomas encountered one alfresco sound too many-a persistent bullfrog in a nearby pond. Every time Baritone Thomas began to sing, the bullfrog answered. Thomas hit a low note, the bullfrog followed him. At last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next...
Most housewives, meanwhile, were taking rationing in their stride. Bakers, candy makers and soda-pop makers (cut to 70% of 1941 use) got along with substitutes, complete elimination of some lines, and good old American ingenuity. But restaurants and hotels (slashed to 50% of 1941 consumption) howled for more...
With these attributes. Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...
Added to the need for extra cars is the difficulty created by inability of the services to order cars far in advance. Instead of an order for a lower to Washington on the 6:15 next week, the old-fashioned Pullman office in Chicago now takes in its stride an order for 212 cars to be at Great Lakes Naval Training Station by 3 p.m. tomorrow...