Word: usher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...discernible in Skouras' entertaining is still more marked in his major activities. Some years ago in Atlanta, Ga., Skouras was inspecting a million-dollar theater, a weak link in one of his chains. Arriving at the theater at 11 a.m., he found no one there except a youthful usher...
...Where's the manager?" he asked, without identifying himself except by his strong Greek accent, which the usher failed to recognize...
...said the usher...
Thirty six juniors were chosen for the honorary usher position. The list was as follows: Allen Barry Kirkland; Charles Boit, Leverett; Robert Bolt, Eliot; Thorley Briggs, Lowell; Donald Cantor, Winthrop; Philip Cronin Lowell; Paul Crowley Leverett; John Davidson Adams; Gilbert Elsner Lowell; Thomas Everhart Kirkland; Jerry Henderson Adams; and Danna Hastings Kirkland...
...sense, her husband's election to the presidency was a triumph for her-after his attack of polio his mother had done everything in her power to keep poor Franklin at home by her side in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. But Usher Ike Hoover recalled Eleanor Roosevelt's first day in the White House-he discovered her hard at work tugging furniture into new positions, as if by that housewife's gesture she could make a home out of the halls in which Lincoln had lived and a million tourists had wandered...