Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good many people seemed to feel like ailing, white-haired J. S. Hancock, who had got up from his bed in Alexandria (La.) Veterans Administration Hospital, trekked more than 100 miles to attend. Said Hancock: "When I'm not feeling too keen I can think of these songs and feel better . . . You know a man that will sing these gospel songs...
...will hardly ever wear a tie or jacket and will smoke in class, and likely as not his professor will be smoking too. He will pass requirements in concentration and distribution, undoubtedly join the 17-sport intramural program, attend some 7:40 a.m. classes, and spend most of his social and extra-curricular life at his club...
When his good and wealthy friend, Willys-Overland Executive Ward Canaday, asked him to attend a businessman's dinner party at the Statler Hotel last week, Harry Truman obligingly agreed. He was under the impression that no more than 15 or 20 men would attend, and that he would not be obliged to speak. At dinnertime, he got into his dinner jacket, slipped quietly over to the hotel for a few hours of comfortable relaxation...
...liberal education was all right as far as it went, but Wright thought something more needed to be added. Said he: "the place of women in the present scheme of things is confused and unstable . . . We must constantly bear in mind, however, that the great majority of women who attend college will marry and have children, and that for most of them their home will be the focus of their lives." Neither women students nor their colleges could ignore the warnings "that the American home is not so satisfactory a place ... as it should...
Miss Luce claimed last night that a "wild maniac" had called her up and demanded $5000 "or you won't appear on opening night." The actress, who opens Wednesday night in Shaw's. "The Millionairess," said she received the call Thursnight night and was too frightened to attend rehearsal Friday...