Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rained frogs, thousands of little green frogs, in Massachusetts-or so said J. P. Valliere of New Bedford, who said he saw them. A Spokane butcher displayed a sign: "Choice Meats: The Management Will Accept Cash, First Mortgages, Bonds and Good Jewelry." Walter W. Brown of Onawa, Iowa lopped off five toes in his lawn mower, found four, had a doctor sew them on again. Lifeguards at Chicago's Oak Street Beach put on shocking-pink trunks to distinguish them from ordinary bathers...
...crammed but meticulously neat workroom of his modest, flower-banked home on a hill overlooking Hollywood's famed Sunset "Strip," Stravinsky is now writing an opera (with Poet W. H. Auden) fashioned from Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, and has just finished a Mass to "appeal directly to the spirit. Therefore, I sought very cold music, absolutely cold. No women's voices. They are by their very nature warm; they appeal to the senses...
...even the basement office did not keep Acme from being scooped on a prize picture of the G.O.P. Convention. When Tom Dewey slipped away to the garden party given by the Pennsylvania Railroad's M. W. Clement for the leading Republican candidates, the Acme photographer covering Dewey was busy changing his shirt...
...company's outlook was much improved. Last week they declared a $2 dividend on the common. It took traders no time at all to calculate that that was a return of close to 20%. And there was still more to come. Curtiss-Wright's President Guy W. Vaughan announced that at least $1 a share - and additional dividends as the "directors deem prudent"-would be paid...
...half-hour program that followed was the first installment in the University of Louisville's twice-weekly "radio-assisted correspondence course" in "Problems of Modern Society." It included a chorus of All Hail to You, Dear U. of L., a talk by Louisville's unshrinking President John W. Taylor, and instructions on how to enroll (to sign up, just tear off and send in a registration blank; for college credit, enclose $30 tuition and you will get study materials, written assignments and, in due course, exams). Negroes, who by state law are forbidden to study in the same...