Word: tags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made no comment on the merit of Seversky's proposed ship, resolutely held secret the other submitted plans. As a $7,000,000 price tag had already been hung on the "Super-Clipper," it was obvious that Seversky had no expectation of getting an order...
...missile that could be flying among the Halls, footballs, basketballs, and squash balls could be added to the collection. These sports could be organized on an inter-Hall basis requiring very few athletic facilities that are not already allotted to Freshmen. It would be easy to have softball and tag football games at Soldiers Field; squash courts and basketball courts would not be much harder to find. In these sports, conducted with all the rivalry and informality of House games, Freshmen could stretch their legs far more pleasantly than wandering aimlessly around a tennis court or a squash court three...
...like that one, sir?" he warbled, coyly snatching off the price tag...
...prominent sculpture at the Fair, recalling that "even Chicago counterbalanced its fan dancer with a world-famous art exhibit" (at the Art Institute, a mile away from the fair grounds), and boldly asking his clients: "Are exhibitions at the Fair to be limited to products that carry a price tag? ... Is this to be a World's Fair worthy of New York, or another glorified Coney Island...
...tag end of the Prohibition era, sad-eyed, quail-like Helen Morgan, with he. tousled black hair, piano-sitting technique and a voice like a pent-up sob, was the best known torch singer of them all. In the sweeping Americana of Edna Ferber's Showboat she was the modern note. Her House of Morgan was the nattiest in Manhattan's satiny nightclub belt. Last week in Philadelphia, plumper, still tousled, sad-eyed and sobby-voiced, Helen Morgan sang in three-a-day variety at cheap Fay's Theatre on Market Street. The matinee audience was unenthusiatic...