Word: remodelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor cousins, so badly built and maintained that children rightfully hate to go to them, we should set out to produce temporary schools of top quality." With up-to-date techniques, including prefabrication, a community can build an attractive new schoolhouse quickly and cheaply. When the time comes to remodel, rebuild, or abandon the school entirely, no large investment has been wasted...
...Brooklyn holdup man named Irving Katzenbogen (alias Ike Katz) took a tip from the late John Dillinger, got a plastic surgeon to remodel his face to keep the cops off his trail. He came boldly back to his old haunts-and ended up in jail. He had neglected to have a tattoo reading "True Love to Mother" removed from his right...
Cautiously, but conscientiously, he set out to clean up a Los Angeles that had 300 gambling houses, 1,800 bookies, 23,000 slot machines and 600 brothels. He waited for seven months before he took steps to remodel the police department, but when he did, he kicked out 23 high-ranking officers. He appointed a college graduate as police chief, and a Rhodes scholar as fire chief...
...weather a lot of wrangling with Californians who still think Cal should be open to every taxpayer's son & daughter. Says Sproul: "You can't do anything as long as the G.I.s are coming anyway. You can't keep those boys waiting around while you remodel the educational system." But he is sure ("I'll bet my hat on it") that the state university of the future will be "a university more likely to produce great scholars than great football players. It won't be an educational country club...
Fredda soon found that she was typed as "that fast-singing Lucky Strike girl." One day, after a tough stretch, she decided to remodel herself, shuck the Hit Parade mannerisms, get a new name and a new agent. It turned out that her lusty, slower-paced new-style singing was a good complement to radio's comedians. Georgia drifted into a period of stooging for most of the top funny men: Hope, Durante, Frank Morgan, Milton Berle, Danny Kaye. She practiced her comedy lines and learned to "get into the show." She also picked up some brassy publicity tricks...