Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change in location and season made little difference in the reception of ancient class parts. The Ivy Oration, by Joseph C. Scott, was greeted with applause and laughter from the "Classmatibus hic haec hoc anno domini c pluribus unum veritas ad infinitum hocus pocus salutem" at the beginning, to the imitation of a History I professor who declared at the end, that "the chaos to which we are now subjected is like the screechings and scratching of a great orchestra, which is in reality but tuning up to play a great triumphal march-the Overture in Africa-and the Finale...
Chicago's A. C. Nielsen Co., whose food, drug and liquor indexes are gospel to U.S. merchandisers, announced the coming of age of its Audimeter, a gadget installed in radio sets that keeps an exact record of the radio's tuning. Seven big-time clients-and their ad agencies are already using the Nielsen Radio Index based on the gadget...
...normal times the Leader-News had seven employes in the "back shop," five in the editorial and business office. On Jan. 1 the news editor and an ad compositor go to the Navy, an apprentice printer to the Army. The business manager and an advertising salesman are leaving for better-paying jobs. That will leave five in the back shop, including two green high-school boys, a bookkeeper and a society writer out front. Ceaseless attempts to hire new hands have produced not one nibble...
...these days anyway. There are lots of pet theories, but none of them quite covers "Candle In The Wind," "Eve Of St. Mark," "Letters To Lucerne," "Plan M"; none of them can explain away "Heart Of The City," "The Moon Is Down," "The Morning Star," "The Wookey,"--et cetera, ad infinitum, strictement pour les oiseaux...
Shipwrecked on Hollywood's fixed idea of the North African desert, still unchanged since the days of Rudolph Valentino and E. M. Hull, Hope and Crosby ad-lib their way to a native village ruled over by Princess Lamour who retains the pleasant knack of looking undressed even when fully clothed. Already betrothed to a native sheik (Anthony Quinn), Lamour gives her affections first to Hope, then to Crosby. Tribesman Quinn's desire for revenge touches off the Keystone excitement. Chief difference between Road to Morocco and its predecessors is that Hope also gets a girl...