Word: vines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shine all the time in Cambridge and the Square may not match Hollywood and Vine, but cinema magnates after a short visit this weekend have their eye on the Yard for a "location" rendition of Helen Howe's "We Happy...
...just like jazz; no matter how good the ingredients are, it's how they're put together that counts." The speaker drove home his point with the help of a persistent, snappily manicured forefinger while overhead towered a big-busted swing singer traced in white tempera on the vine-colored wall which goes around the Savoy. He had a bald, top-shaped head ornamented with rimless glasses. This combined with the soft-spoken, non-alcoholized manner of speaking to which he kept doggedly despite the competition of a vociferous alto saxophone gave him the air of a dignified old schoolmaster...
...Bowron purged the cooperative cops, thus inviting torpedoes from all points East. There was opportunity for all in Los Angeles-the races, Hollywood, wartime black markets, herds of money-heavy aircraft workers. The newly arrived mobsters sighed happily, bought gabardine slacks and pastel sports shirts, rubbed shoulders peacefully at Vine Street bars, the baseball games and the Friday night fights at Hollywood Legion Stadium...
...districts," each choosing its officers in a democratic election, and running its own affairs. Bennett's experts would help the districts as "land doctors." In their kits they had a dazzling array of medicines. For gullies, they described cheap, home-made dams and new plants, such as kudzu vine, to hold the sliding soil. For hilly fields they prescribed novel methods of contour plowing, strip planting, terracing. For run-down soils, they recommended cover crops and suitable fertilizers. They would survey and test a whole district, then tell farmers how to make soil more productive...
What United wants to do with its stores was shown fortnight ago when the first Owl "Superstore" opened its doors on Hollywood's busiest corner, Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. It looked like a De Mille glorification of a drugstore-indirect lighting, air-conditioning and a 56-stool counter-fountain, with endless belt to bring food from the kitchen and carry back dirty dishes...