Word: abe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to Their Shack. But after a few months Gil and Maggie ran away from the farm and lit out for their shack on Half Moon. An alarm was sounded, but Abe Stern, police chief of Ramapo township, didn't do anything about it. "Gil and Maggie will make out all right," he said...
...style. (Since South Africa is a leading producer of ostrich feathers, this feature of the Queen's costume attracted special attention.) At a Civic Ball in the town, Princess Elizabeth danced the Princess Foxtrot (composed in her honor) with Cape Town's Mayor Abe Bloomberg. On the following day the entire family watched a stately quadrille at a huge ball given by the "colored community" in the City Hall. For once royal fashions played second fiddle to a dazzling array of East Indian and Malay costumes as 4,000 variously hued clerks, teachers, merchants and housemaids...
Though Lincoln was born south of the Mason-Dixon Line, Illinois was his home state; and his birthday is a statewide sacred day. But in one little Illinois town last week, Abe Lincoln barely got a look-in on his birthday. The town of Sheldon (pop. 1,035) had a private holiday to celebrate, and every lamppost on the main street proclaimed it: "Lizzie Richardson Day, Golden Anniversary...
...Walter S. Frank '49, John L. Hawk '49, Frederick W. Kinsman '49, William G. Lawrence '50, Mark W. Leiserson '48, Bernard Loitman '40, Donald P. MacDonald '50, William W. Mee '47, James M. Menger, Jr. '48, Vincent P. Moravec '40, William F. O'Connor '49, Berol L. Robinson '48, Abe Schestopol '49, and John M. Teem...
Said Bilbo of the $3,000 he had borrowed from Abe Shushan to make a divorce settlement with his wife: "I still owe $2,250 on this alimony nightmare." The swmiming-pool bill and the Morrissey loan, he vowed he would...