Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan worked so well that by 1946 he had become the biggest U.S. producer of whiteware. The town was more prosperous than ever before, thanks to the 825 jobs and to the fat bonuses passed out by Lew Reese; in 1946, he gave his workers $705,000 at year's end. But last Christmas, as he prepared to pass out another $423,000, trouble caught up with Lew Reese. His plant burned down, and he had bought no fire insurance...
Instead of getting the bonuses, the townspeople took up a collection of $1,000 to help Lew Reese. Then they went out and helped him clean up the blackened wreckage of the plant. Even Jay Spiker, the town banker, joined in. Said Reese hopefully: "We'll be turning out cups and saucers here in two months' time...
Nobody believed him. They knew how hard it was to get steel and construction workers. But the town caught Reese's enthusiasm, sent a delegation to the National Steel Corp.'s Ernest T. Weir. Weir promised to send steel. From his Great Lakes Steel Corp. in Detroit, Weir also sent Quonset-type buildings. The Pennsylvania Railroad helped out by giving priorities to Reese's materials and stopping through trains at Scio just to unload them. When he ran short of cash, five New York chain stores, which had sold millions of pieces of Reese-made china, lent...
Please God. Almost in one breath Runyon could bid the world be gay ("This [is] the best show in town") and sonorously reproach its gaiety ("There were men . . . and women . . . standing chin-deep in . . . this bloody trial and giving some offense to high Heaven, it seems to me, by their very presence"). When nine-year-old Lorraine Snyder enters the courtroom, Runyon deftly massages the hearts of a million mothers ("She was, please God . . . a fleeting little shadow . . . and she stood looking bravely into [Justice Scudder's] eyes, the saddest, the most tragic little figure, my friends, ever viewed...
Violinist Robert Brink had just put his fiddle away after playing Hindemith's Sonata in E at Manhattan's Town Hall, when the Guilet Quartet moved in to play a Hindemith quartet. Next night, in Carnegie Hall, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra marched through his Symphony in E Flat; three blocks away, Ballet Society danced The Four Temperaments-music by Hindemith. Next night, in Carnegie Hall, George Szell put his Cleveland Orchestra through Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber. The critics, who usually find Hindemith dry as toast, found his Metamorphosis gay and charming. In Boston...