Word: adoree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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I adore heckling.
Said a salesman to a goateed fellow-traveler in a smoking car one day: "My line's skirts, what's yours?" Replied goateed, twinkling William Allan Neilson, president of Smith College: "That's my line, too." Smith's Neilson, 70, retires this month, after 21 years...
Lest they disappear entirely, the WPA Federal Writers' Project last week got out facsimile edition of "Singin' Billy's" song book- just in time for this year's one-day Singing. Armed with fine new copies Southern Harmony, the singers once filled the Court House, yielding...
"We do not adore these new pagan gods of the totalitarian states," he said, "but it is because we adore no gods at all. Secularism is a poor substitute for paganism."
Off Cinemactor Lee Tracy's yacht Adore fell his 72-year-old mother into Santa Monica harbor, whence she was rescued by her son who dived in fully clothed. Treated for shock and exposure, Mrs. Tracy was removed to her Beverly Hills apartment, where three days later the gas...