Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last June the Seattle Star, their largest paper, had lost all but one department-store ad contract. Sanders, who still owned 15% of Star stock, squawked deafeningly. The boys tried to sell the Star, found no buyers...
...haphazard operation is Quiz the Scientist. The five or six questions discussed on the program are selected well in advance, and board members often write out their answers to make sure they won't fall into high-toned scientific lingo that would baffle the average listener. Inveterate ad libber is impish Dr. Wood, who likes to preface thoughtful discussions of taste with such of his verses as: "Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and skunks are-phew...
...Snooks, Fanny goes through all kinds of strange contortions before a mike, mugging, squirming and jumping up & down. Unlike Colleague Morgan she never ad libs, gives Scriptwriter Rapp and Hanley Stafford, her "Daddy," plenty of credit for helping her put Snooks across, threw a party last week in honor of them and Snooks's seventh anniversary. Favorite situation cooked up for Snooks involved the purchase of an Easter bonnet. First she demands flowers for the hat, then fruit, eggs, vegetables. Remarks the clerk: "Shall I wrap it up?" Replies Snooks: "No, I'll eat it here...
...loudspeakers of Congress must be heard no matter how inane, bromidic and repetitious their statements are. For example, the whole country knows how Senator Blank feels and where he stands; it and his colleagues have heard him ad lib and ad nauseam and yet he takes up time, creates confusion and dissension, and accomplishes no good, makes no constructive suggestions and in fact has degenerated into a common scold...
...Eire, when Prime Minister Eamon de Valera banned The Great Dictator, a Belfast theatre (in Northern Ireland) tried to advertise the film in Dublin newspapers, with a schedule of train service to Belfast. Eire's censors promptly killed the ad...