Word: things
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Election results were disheartening but the most discouraging thing to me was the quotation printed in TIME from Mr. Roosevelt's talk to the villagers: "I think you will find me in the future just exactly the same Franklin Roosevelt that you have known for a great many years...
...cost to bust up the galley. Much to the troublemaker's amazement, the "Old Man" sat down and seriously began quoting various prices, tried to show the bargain value of some of them. The sailor left for his room back aft in a fog and forgot the whole thing while the captain still sat around and pulled at a wheezing corncob pipe...
Variety's 1940 showmanship survey failed to find any radio column worthy of a plaque. Having examined the radio section of 275 newspapers, the editors of Variety came to the snippy conclusion "that for all practical purposes there is no such thing in the United States as serious radio criticism except in this and one or two other business publications...
...working like a beaver. Back of him were three years of success. Salida was on its way to becoming a ghost town in the early '30s. The Denver & Rio Grande Western took away its shops and offices, two mines closed down, 3,000 citizens moved away. First thing W. B. did was advertise. On the highways he set up strings of hearts bearing the admonition "Follow the Hearts to Salida"; -"Salida, the Heart of the Rockies." Local bathing beauties posed for the leg art (see cut). The campaign went over fine with the tourists...
...high school, the Leibovitz twins made one of their rare joint pictures, a mural on which right-handed Freda worked leftward, southpaw Ida in the opposite direction until they met in the centre. The whole thing looked like one artist's work. When the Leibovitz twins, tramping through Philadelphia streets, painted the same subject, their conceptions were almost identical. In the contests in which...