ANNOUNCER: PEOPLE IN AMERICA -- a VOA Special English program about famous Americans of the past. Today, Harry Monroe and Kay Gallant tell the story of dancer and movie star, Fred Astaire. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Fred Astaire The year is nineteen thirty-t...
Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. I'm Rich Kleinfeldt. (MUSIC) Today we tell about the word fireworks. The expression fireworks gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating...