Word: zippering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music which dapper Conductor Herbert Zipper led his 86 Filipino musicians through last week had nothing remotely reminiscent of the rumble of a Moro tom-tom. Manilans have been elegantly enjoying their concerts and opera for nearly 300 years, and were ready 15 years ago for the organization of a full-out orchestra. With precision and grace last week it swung through Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, Glazounov's Une Féte slave. Jovita Fuentes, Filipino soprano who has sung Madam Butterfly from China to Nazi Germany, sang a set of Gustav Mahler...
Police could guess what the trio had been after at the N.Y.A.C. Room 1903 was one of a suite occupied by Frank Erickson, reputed to be New York's wealthiest bookmaker, said by Mayor LaGuardia to be a "bum." A zipper bag which the gunmen had left behind them held black masks, wire, cord, wads of cotton-elaborate paraphernalia for a holdup...
...wealthy is good draft publicity, Manhattan's Selective Service publicity used the occasion to set off plenty of red fire. Mr. Martin cooperated. With $30 in his wallet ("I suppose I shouldn't have that much"), little more than a change of underwear in his zipper bag, he cheerfully suffered many an interview and photo. He also dramatized the leveling influence of the draft by sticking close to a contrasting fellow recruit: an awed $16-a-week Stock Exchange page...
Once Ernie picked out a typical relief town in Nebraska, wrote ten columns about it. Once he did a notable piece about his difficulties with zipper pants. Whenever Ernie takes a vacation, editors are apt to reprint...
...flesh-&-blood performers, singing, dancing, míming, Lolly sits nervously at a desk backstage, interrupts to read newsy telegrams. When possible she answers audience questions on her age ("neither as old as May Robson nor as young as Shirley Temple"), whether Dorothy Lamour's sarong has a zipper. Before she is through she will visit Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, bear out the observation of her archenemy, Columnist Hedda Hopper, who once cracked: "They ought to change the old adage to 'Be a columnist and see the world...