Word: talents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was a sufficiency of food and in certain cases, almost an over sufficiency of liquid refreshment. I was sincerely surprised at the abundance of talent that sprang up that evening of December 10. It was generally said that in comparison to our Hubert Hufferd that "The Voice" Sinatra is in the bush-leagues. He has not only the proper treble and volumes, but our boy has ENDURANCE. There are very few people who can stand at the "mike" and sing for a period of an hour or so without stopping for a breath...
There was an abundance of talent as well as food and drink, and the program, carried along smoothly by the able efforts of master of ceremonies Skelton, was brought to a rousing strip-tease climax. Lieutenant Pradley's spirited rendition of the bare-it-all ballet was undoubtedly the hit of the evening...
...season of one-sided scores. Thanks to Navy and Marine transfers, 1943 football talent came in bunches or not at all. Because of Army's ban, more than 200 colleges had no teams. It was a season of poor kicking and few brilliant ends, and nobody could say why. It was a season in which spectators grew so dis gusted with out-of-bounds kickoffs that the Rules Committee may well make them illegal by next fall...
...Union's President Streit. Peoria's Hotel Père Marquette was suitably draped in red-white-&-blue bunting. The LaSalle Room's crystal chandeliers were strung with bouquets of United Nations flags. There were stiff little luncheons with entertainment by Peoria's best singing talent. Seven girls in long square-necked dinner gowns, sang a "Hymn of Peace." Prizes were awarded for an organizational song, a slogan (winner: "Union Now-a Last Peace Tomorrow"), a symbol (winner: a whiffletree...
Nightly in the "reporters' room"-frenzied and cluttered with teletypes, telephones, stale sandwiches, cups of tea, personalities, smoke, temperament, bitter grins and rush-he helps build the next day's Express. With a talent unrivaled in Fleet Street, he picks out of heaps of copy the stories that fit his line, plays them for all they are worth, with a fine disregard for what his staider competitors...