Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...names as Washington and Maryland and they called the village America. In the 1820s it grew fast. Then shifting sands moved the river channel and its commerce away, and a terrible epidemic swept the town. By 1835 its brave dream was dying; in the century after that, America, Ill. almost vanished...
...much of a store-its owner, Walter Schnaare, had long since given up trying to make a living out of it and had gotten a job upriver at Cairo (rhymes with faro). But it was, nevertheless, a great institution in America-a club and forum, and a source for almost anything America's housewives had forgotten to pick up in the city stores. Mrs. Schnaare was glad to keep it open a few hours every day just as a community service...
...former group were seen such numbers as the Little Genius, the Princess Margaret Rose, and one which was gotten up like Sophie Tucker but was labelled Italian Dolly. The undressed dolls are more active this year than ever before. One boasts of a "real soft nose and almost human ears." This one promised also to blow bubbles when given a pipe. They all can drink water this year (though none are built to retain it), and the manufacturers have provided "changes" for those unimaginative mothers who demand that their little ones behave just like them...
Jordan Marsh's Santa Claus was reached only by following a labyrinth of railings designed to keep a large crowd in an orderly line. Luckily, there was almost no line, and when Santa had taken care of three serious-faced youngsters. I asked him how he liked his job. "Why, it's the sweetest job I've ever had. Just sitting here all day. Sure, and it'd suit me foine if it lasted clear 'til June...
...Just the usual hoke," says an actor in "Holiday Inn" playing a Hollywood director. His comment, applied to the entire motion picture, in almost, but not quite, in order. The "hoke" in "Holiday Inn" is the old-fashioned, pollyannish product that Hollywood continues to turn out year after year. The only qualification that must be made is that "Holiday Inn" has a lot more to offer...