Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight at 7:30 o'clock the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society meets for the annual Spring Farewell Brawl. Extraordinary guests at this evening's clandestine meeting will include Julius Van Duerk, inventive genius responsible for the radically new nine-hole button guaranteed to stay on and frustrate all unemployed tailors. Music will be supplied by the Chicago Pianos, Inc., and Mr. John Walker, local toastmaster, has been invited to attend. Local Psychiatrist's Union 314 has been supplied with all further particulars...
...Girls and a Sailor (M-G-M). The girls are sister nightclub singers named Patsy and Jean Deyo. Noble Patsy (June Allyson) is as reliable as the polestar; spoiled Jean (Gloria De Haven) is as unreliable as a polecat. The sailor (Van Johnson) gives his name as plain John Brown, so it comes as no surprise to learn that he is really John Dyckman Brown III, a democratic multimillionaire. Before the sisters learn his secret he spends a good deal of his fortune sending orchids (signed "Somebody") to flirtatious Jean, much to Patsy's pain...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...
...Opportunity Shop, Inc (operated by the Community Service Society, one of the U.S.'s oldest and largest charities) reported a 25% up in sales despite a 12% drop in donations. And the Actor's Thrift Shop has found a customer for the tuxedo of the late Hendrik van Loon (6 ft. 6 in. tall, 85 in. around): the A.W.V.S. bought it to turn into a woman's suit...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...