Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German women tack their husbands' titles on to their own names. A classic German joke tells of the woman who called herself Frau Hatchet-Murderer Müller...
...Flames, Testamark and Pollard, had once played alongside a glum guitarist who stared lifelessly into the innards of his guitar. A woman in the audience asked him, "What you got in there-dirty pictures?" After that, the Flames started looking for a new third. Two years ago, they found a bearded West Indian named Tiger Haynes ("he's a frantic guy"), and stole him from a trio called Plink, Plank and Plunk...
Fustest with the Mostest. Hedda spent most of the rest of her movie career in Hollywood, working for Louis B. Mayer. She was the screen's first best-dressed woman, and for years its official sophisticated society dame. In those years, without even trying, she salted down an incredible knowledge of Hollywood's strange ways & means. She can tell off-the-record stories that make Suetonius look like a cub from the Christian Science Monitor. She even knew what the inside of Garbo's dressing room looked like ("the black hole of Calcutta"). Studio publicity men, hard...
...took it gallantly. She dabbled in real estate, but that bored her. Then one day she flounced into the hotel suite of Dema ("The Brain") Harshbarger, an ample and astute business woman, founder and manager of the NBC Artists' Bureau, who had gone to California to retire. Said Hedda: "I want to get on that air." "In half an hour," says Dema, "she told me more about Hollywood than I could learn in two years of constant study." Dema decided to become Hedda's manager...
...applies at banquets and in billing. Hedda and Louella must sit equidistant from the principal speaker. In advertising displays, the problem is impossible to solve by simple geometry. Top billing is better than bottom, and left is better than right; so it has become customary to reproduce only one woman's blurb at a time...