Word: woe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their backgrounds differ also. New York State-born Lindsay, 56, has been close to the footlights since he gave public recitations as a child, of such ditties as When You See a Man in Woe, Walk Right Up and Say Hello. Carrying a spear, working in tent shows, Shakespeare, burlesque, he found his feet in the '20s as a director (Dulcy, Gay Divorce), founded his fortune in the '30s as a playwright (She Loves Me Not). Eighteen years ago he married delicate, blond Dorothy Stickney (the original Mother in Life With Father), whom a wag once described...
...plain Harry Truman will climb aboard the Missouri, eat lunch and review the 50 war ships moored off Manhattan. The day -Oct. 27 - is Navy Day, the birthday of the late Theodore Roosevelt, whode clared: "The Navy of the United States is the right arm of the United States. . . . Woe to our country if we permit that right arm to become palsied...
...since 1942, and reconversion from war production is costing $75 million for machinery and plants. Unless U.A.W.'s wage increase is passed on to the public, Keller predicted that Chrysler, too, would soon go broke. General Motors' white-thatched C. E. Wilson had the same tale of woe...
...After that, all hell breaks loose. The girl, in love with the letters, marries the man she thinks has written them; the husband is murdered. The girl, suspected of the murder, comes down with acute amnesia. Alan realizes that his own deceit has brought on the murder and the woe, and that if the girl recovers her memory, she will probably lose her mind. Despite all these causes for alarm, he marries her. Sure enough, she recovers her memory-just as an especially fancy piece of plot mechanics resolves everybody's troubles...
...another of his offices, this time on the 34th floor of Manhattan's General Electric Building, surrounded by his henchmen. In filed the representatives of Victor and Columbia. For five hours they struggled over the exact contract language. Finally, Caesar handed them a pen and the woe-to-the-vanquished terms he had given Decca: a fee on every record, ranging from ¼? to 5?. the money to be paid into a special Musician's Union fund...