Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silver-Shirted Rabble-Rouser William Dudley Pelley, 59, was getting out of the Federal Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind. after serving about half of a 15-year sentence for sedition. Probable next stop: the state prison in Raleigh, N.C., where he has up to five years to serve on an old sentence under the blue sky laws...
Last week the baffled Englishman would have found America even more curious. The latest radio craze was Tune-O, an air version of bingo with a touch of Stop the Music thrown in. Players must first guess the name of the tune being played from a numbered list supplied by the sponsors, then match the tune's number with an accompanying bingo-type card. The first to plot five numbers in a row calls the radio station, screams "Tune-O!" and waits for the prizes to roll in: $1,000 in cash, jewelry, a new automobile...
...August afternoon in 1859, when a strange figure in black broadcloth, a glossy plug hat and lavender gloves appeared driving a span of oxen down the dusty main street. The newcomer drove expertly, shouting his commands in Latin, until finally and inevitably he came to a stop outside Uncle Dick Wootton's saloon and general store. His first statement to the townsmen was in English, not Latin, though they would have understood it in any tongue. It was: "Set 'em up. The drinks...
...build three new high schools and enlarge ten other buildings; under able Jesse Newlon, teachers finally won a single salary scale. During the 1920s the city saw 26 new schools rise up all over town. But the race between the rising buildings and rising enrollments never seemed to stop. When 43-year-old Kenneth Oberholtzer appeared on the scene in 1947, the school plant was lagging far behind...
...litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle." They slouch through the halls, let their legs sprawl out under desks. As for chewing gum, said one teacher, "If I tried to stop them I wouldn't have time for anything else...