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And, 'twas like turning the knife in the wound when you gave out with "Good Morning, Navy Dear." We write this at 0615 one morning while still mad, but we in Mellon know youse guys is really swell people, so we humbly suggest reveille calls inside the dorms instead of...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

Knee-high, banjo-eyed, potato-nosed Barney Google and his wonder nag, Spark Plug, were to U.S. kids in the '20s what Superman is today. Barney Google ("and his goo-goo-googly eyes") was a 1923 song hit that sold more than a million copies. Three Barney Google musicomedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: De Beck Dies | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Of her eleven sponsors, Bessie plugs all on each program. She herself does the commercials, sugared with household hints that fans find easy to take. Her fans include the well-heeled and hard-up in almost equal numbers. They also include men. Yelled a bartender recently, when customers switched off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mrs. Know-lt-All | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

The score was 20 to 20, as the home team held the ball on the enemy's two yard line; fourth down, seconds to go, and the sectional championship at stake for the offense. As both teams, composed of huge mountain-like men, lined up for the final play, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 10/13/1937 | See Source »

"Hey, will youse guys cut that row? Waddaye think dis is?" then with a reverent motion towards Kirkland, "Youse pro'bly didn't know dat some of de greatest brains in dis country was woikin in dese very walls." And in almost ethereal silence the garbage crew, much chastened, continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

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