Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheery, blue-eyed blonde, is a girl who likes to play the piano, sing mezzo-soprano, play golf and watch the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. She hopes to go to Milwaukee-Downer College. She doesn't date much ("I've concentrated on scholarship"). When Patricia got word that she had won, her mother was more excited than she was. "Golly, was she excited," says Patricia. "I suppose I won't get excited until tomorrow...
...last week, readers of Churchill's LIFE and Times were more than halfway through Vol. I. From the 225,000-word text, LIFE was printing about 50,000 words, the New York Times 93,000. Extracts are running in 80 newspapers outside the U.S. (Houghton Mifflin and Book-of-the-Month Club will publish the complete text this summer). This week, Churchill turned over to LIFE and the Times Vol. II of his memoirs, covering Britain's darkest-and finest-hours, the period that saw the fall of France and the 1940 blitz on London. This second installment...
Whatever adults-and sponsors-may think of such carryings-on, Hawthorne and his peculiar banana-split lingo have become the rage of Southern California's younger set. Most popular root word is "hogan" (example: "I was driving my carahogan in from Pasadena-hogan so I could get a hoganburger"). The young folks also overwork Hawthorne's favorite adjectives: keen, peachy-keen, and oh-so-peachy-keen...
...short of cash that it would be "unable to continue even a semblance of its present service" unless it got a $3.000,000 boost in foreign mail rates-and got it right now. Moreover, only two weeks ago Cohu had been re-elected president-and had said not a word about quitting...
Fantastic was Hollywood's word for it. A 34-year-old ex-film cutter and a 37-year-old ex-pressagent, with a total capital of $25,000, brashly announced last year that they were going to make a million-dollar A movie...