Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princeton introduced long hair, canvas jackets (called "smocks" because they were invented by a student named Smock) and the famed V formation, forerunner of the momentum mass plays of the '90s...
...changed into one of his crimson satin lounging suits to lead one of his chows, always named either Chi Chi or Toi Toi, through the streets of Paris. Though Berry Wall was born in Manhattan (1861), where he was a society swell in the '80s and '90s, he spent most of his later life in France. There, under the impression that he was leading a tumultuous and crowded existence, he drifted from race track to race track, from hotel to hotel, from gambling casino to gambling casino, with a miscellaneous society that included the Duchess of Windsor...
...thousands of common stockholders in sub-par roads, the ICC report was not cheering. Some (MOP, New Haven, North Western) have been wiped out completely. But oldtimers in Wall Street recalled the drastic reorganizations of Santa Fe and Union Pacific in the '90s, their good earnings since...
Died. Ernest Lawrence ("Phinney") Thayer, 77, bronzed, snow-haired author of the famed doggerel, Casey at the Bat; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Still engraved in schoolboy hearts of the '90s is its closing quatrain...
There the parallel ends, for When The Daltons Rode is no sly Destry but a fairly conventional Western whose big-city actors often are merely incongruous. Retelling the story of the famed & feared Dalton gang of the '90s as the saga of a family of farm boys who are dispossessed by a land company and avenge themselves on their fellows by turning frontier bandits, it is good in precisely the ways hundreds of Westerns have been good before: the train robbery, the chase through the sagebrush, the last great scene where false men and true shoot it out until...