Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career: his feud with Jack Benny. One night he assured a guest on his program, a twelve-year-old violinist, that he played the Flight of the Bumble Bee better than Benny played it after 40 years of practicing. Showman Benny knew a cue when he heard one. For ten years radio's biggest running gag has been kept alive without a single backstage strategy conference...
...year later, now healthy but a mild hypochondriac, he came back to the air, began his present half-hour show. Its main attractions: a ten-minute sketch involving a guest star and a short stroll down the most famed of all airlanes: Allen's Alley...
...Fred is a panhandler's dreamboat. For ten years an old vaudevillian named Wilbur used to rap at the door of the Allen apartment every Sunday afternoon. Every time, Fred lectured him sternly, finally gave him $10 "for the last time." Portland once caught Wilbur before he knocked, told him Fred was out of town. Fred waited, got more & more restless. When he had worked himself into a nervous lather, Portland relented, confessed. Next Sunday Fred lectured Wilbur twice as hard, gave...
Also, no code of ethics is an adequate substitute for religion. For if it be manmade, it can be remade by other men, and its true name is mores, which are transient. And even if, like the Ten Commandments, an ethical code has a religious origin, but is not newly illuminated for each generation by fresh drafts of religion, then its followers are trapped in what Santayana calls "the snare of moralism, that destroys the sweetness of human affections by stretching them on the rack of infinity...
...Ten Days. Already they had an option to buy Lone Star for $7,500,000 (with no initial down payment), and three of the Oklahoma mines. But WAA insisted on additional operating capital of $1,000,000, to be raised within ten days. So Carpenter & friends organized a financial posse, struck out for the red clay hills around Daingerfield. At crossroad gatherings and town rallies, they sold thousands of shares of stock, got some $100,000 from Longview (pop. 13,758) alone...