Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people drink? Pollsters from the National Opinion Research Center, who went around asking, got a variety of answers. Said a Pennsylvania housewife: "People think you are dead if you don't." Said a schoolteacher from rural Wisconsin: "I guess just to be sociable. I don't care for it at all; I just choke it down." As a North Carolina building contractor expressed it: "When I drink I feel important." A Georgia farmer: "Drinking takes me right...
...newsmen made the Golden Gate a port of call. Some big names were among them. Rudyard Kipling, says Author Bruce, was "a bad reporter . . . snagging on his careless pen events and scenes that were never there." White-coated Horace Greeley found the climate the "worst on earth." Nevertheless, he went back to New York and urged young men to go west...
...orchestra glided into the opening bars of Sergei Prokofiev's score and the curtain went up on Cinderella. Then, for two hours, an eager-to-be-enchanted audience found plenty of reason to be. With her thistledown lightness and grace, pert, piquant Moira Shearer (dancing star of the movie Red Shoes) danced well and looked the part of Cinderella. Her two ugly sisters, one of them danced by Choreographer Ashton himself, couldn't have been uglier, and her prince (Michael Somes) couldn't have been more charming. Reported the London Daily Mail: "The curtain calls seemed...
...started making radio transformers 25 years ago in his father's Chicago shop. He developed an improved kind of transformer, and built his Transformer Corp. of America into the largest company of its kind in the world. Five years after refusing $5,000,000 for the business, he went bankrupt in the depression...
Died. J. Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie, 69, an alltime great among U.S. football coaches; in Hartford, Conn. In his 33 years of power-play coaching, lanky Gil Dobie went through eleven consecutive undefeated seasons, drove his teams (North Dakota State, University of Washington, Navy, Cornell, Boston College) to a record of 180 victories, 45 losses, 15 ties...