Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traditional desperate gaiety. There is more drinking than formerly-men about to be inducted drink the most-but little drunkenness.-Almost nobody wears evening clothes. Uniforms run up to 50% (mostly enlisted men) in the Broadway area; average 25% (mostly officers) on the East Side, with here & there a WAVE or a WAAC. Service men seldom pay a cover charge, often get special rates. Prices everywhere have climbed...
...forget the sad messages that come over his wire. Freckled, four-year-old Ulysses (Jack Jenkins), called "Useless" for short by his playmates, is Homer's kid brother. He constantly asks unanswerable questions, learns about life from such simple but significant incidents as a Negro's friendly wave from a passing freight train. Other Macauleys: Mother (Fay Bainter), Sister Bess (Donna Reed), who goes to college, and Brother Marcus (Van Johnson), who is in the Army...
...impulse that moves among great masses of people at the same moment and guides their actions with a finality that is beyond the ordering of governments. There was such a time when millions of Europeans of all faiths and nationalities moved to the New World in a great tidal wave of humanity. There was such a time when the West was settled and thousands of emigrants swept over the Oregon Trail...
...WAVES Long for Bids to Home--Those at Radcliffe Seek Hospitality Lifeline". This local press headline met the highly sympathetic eye of Mixer Co-Chairman Cadet Dick Powell one day earlier this week. Within the minute he was on the phone talking with Ensign Marie Gaertner, administrative officer of the Radcliffe WAVES; result, the scheduling of tomorrow evening's WAVE-Business School mixer to be given in Chase Hall from 8:30 to 11:30, Cadet Bob Byers and his 12-piece "Hot Rythm Stompers" wil create something like music for the occasion...
...critical rationing of tickets for the mixer was in effect last Tuesday, necessitated by reason of the fact that there are some 660 B School men and only 64 WAVES. So the fortunate ones that got in on last Tuesday's ticket dole will be the only ones admitted to greet the WAVE contingent tomorrow night...