Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their hero, the late El Chivas (by legend a university student who, disappointed in love, took to drink) made a living by merely staring soulfully at the sky, holding out his hand, never saying a word...
...bail. He would be tried by a jury May 27. He flew off to Manhattan, where the Council Against Intolerance in America gave him a prize for other efforts. Manhattan's left-winging tabloid PM, on Frankie's side, dignified the brawl with a 1,000-word editorial. (He "must have warmed the hearts of millions," said PM-but conceded that this was probably not the best way to strike a blow at race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups, his 4-F draft status, his crooning activities during...
Pablo Picasso himself had come alone to the gallery one morning, ordered the doors shut while he looked the show over, and gone away again without uttering a word...
Last week came word from New Zealand that Maori musicality has at last produced a likely concert singer. Ini Te Wiata, 34, a logger with a resonant bass, has made such a hit with his countrymen (and with thousands of U.S. Marines in wartime New Zealand) that New Zealand's Labor government decided to do something for him. This week he will board ship for three years at London's Trinity College of Music, a $10,000 musical education at Government expense. New Zealanders, who suspect they have found a native Paul Robeson, do not intend...
...addition to bossing United, he is a director in three non-aviation companies. Yet his desk in his blue-green, semi-paneled office, across from Chicago's Municipal Airport, is usually clean of work. Sometimes he dictates for hours. He does it methodically, seldom fumbling for a word. He used to lunch at his desk, but an attack of stomach ulcers cured him of that. (The ulcers are also cured now.) As a result, he is a careful eater, but smokes two packages of cigarets a day, chews gum between smokes...