Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy and oppressive over the flat, treeless prairies of the Texas Panhandle. It was getting on toward supper time. In the little town of White Deer (pop. 500), Stockman H. W. Holmes stood in his front yard, uneasy in the muggy closeness. Suddenly, in the lowering clouds to the west, he saw a black, towering funnel, wavering, twisting, clutching at the earth. There was a deep-toned rumble "like a fast freight train." Said Holmes: "It hit an oncoming freight train just outside of town, and they tell me that 19 cars and two cabooses went off the rails...
...trim cattle-and-wheat center of Woodward, Okla. (pop. 5,500), Clyde Grim, 57, a mechanic, and his wife had finished supper. At 8:42 p.m., the wind blew the kitchen door open. "It blew us outside on the ground," Grim said. "There were cars in the air, some blowing straight up. People were screaming. It was awful. There was a hissing and a popping sound, and through it all I could hear my wife praying...
...planned this year by the Permanent Class Committee because there was no time to elect to Class Day Committee, will bound along with 1) Triangle exercises--Class oration, poem, ode, and speeches; 2) lunch at the Houses; 3) parade to Soldiers Field for the Yale baseball game; 4) buffet supper in Kirkland House; 5) orchestra and glee club concert; and 6) dancing in the Houses...
...bright spot of the first program (none too bright despite the high-octane foolishness of guest star Bob Hope) was Evelyn's choice phrasing of The Toorie on His Bonnet, Her mink-soft voice is as calculatedly intimate as a dropped shoulder strap. But voice, as many a supper-clubman knows, isn't the half of Evelyn. The rest is the allure which she exudes as unfailingly as a perfume factory...
Evelyn stayed at the Blue Angel for her customary three years, began building a radio name with appearances on the Lanny Ross Show, the Chesterfield Supper Club, the Bourjois Powder Box Theater, et al. Last week, the buildup paying off big, she mused: "I sometimes wonder why I studied singing. I became such a huge success when I stopped using my voice...