Word: lonely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...summer the Army dozed along with a single, experimental mechanized brigade, and kept this little upstart haltered in the cavalry. What additional tanks and armored vehicles the Army possessed were scattered among older services. It took Hitler's Panzer divisions to wake up the U. S. Army. The lone Seventh Brigade suddenly grew (on paper) into a full-fledged armored force. Tank-minded pioneers were given command, plus a free hand to concentrate practically all of the Army's mechanized equipment in two divisions...
...stumped. Five crews of linemen scrambled and shinnied to make telephone connections. Rushing to finish a much-needed sewage system, WPAsters built street-corner privies which indignant citizens threatened to burn. Sidewalk hawkers with pushcarts turned Charlestown into a Lower East Side. Jam-packed was the town's lone grog shop.-Every night was Saturday night and Saturday night was chaos...
Other numbers are "I've Lost My Indifference Over You," "Let Me Tutor You in Love," and "If You Don't Volunteer, I'll Draft You." The last is rendered by lovely Lone Star Dietz '41, who, tired of being "No Man's Land," goes into a strip tease...
Among the Wylie standouts of the past season: My Client Curley, Norman Corwin's adaptation of Lucille Fletcher's tale of a fabulous dancing caterpillar. Best comedy: Jack Benny. Best western: The Lone Ranger. Best daytime serial: Pepper Young's Family. Best talk: The President's Address to the Science Congress. Best music continuities: The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, the John Kirby Show. Best newscasters: Major George Fielding Eliot, Elmer Davis, Edward R. Murrow, William L. Shirer, Wythe Williams and Raymond Gram Swing. Best spot reporting: James Bowen's description...
...most spectacular lone wolf in 33 years of Wall Street history was Jesse Livermore, who plunged in & out of four Wall Street fortunes. Last week he decided the odds against another comeback were too steep, quit the market for good...