Word: beasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best to cook a strudel when you feel mean," said Dione Lucas last week as she demonstrated how to do it over Manhattan's WPIX. "The beast stands or falls on how hard you beat it. If you beat the dough 99 times, you will have a fair strudel. If you beat it 100 times, you will have a good strudel. But if you beat it 101 times, you will have a superb strudel." Dione Lucas ought to know. Born in Italy, raised in France, she is a handsome, 46-year-old Englishwoman whose lifelong love affair with...
...nearly a breach of contract, but law professor William W. McCurdy got his Horse Dobbin yesterday. Dobbin, a mythical beast which figures prominently in McCurdy's course on contracts, became very real horse flesh behind Austin Hall during the 11 a.m. class break when two first-year students, Fred L. Atwood and Henfry B. Shepard, Jr., presented McCurdy with a hungry nag rented for the occasion. But the renter for the occasion. But the renter left his map of Cambridge in his other pants, and the rentees very nearly had a horse as mythical as McCurdy's. Two hundred waiting...
...only birds, but burros, rabbits, and ducks appear and disappear with Blackstone's aid. He has had to abandon, however, the most astounding of his stunts, the vanishing elephant. The beast was too big for road trips. A horse proved more mobile. With Blackstone in the saddle, the horse galloped into a tent which then collapsed. When the tent was removed, their stood the magician with the saddle in his hand. Years ago when he visited Cairo, the vanishing horse became a disappearing camel...
Here we see echoing juxtapositions of Yeats' "beast slouching toward Jerusalem," Blake's "Tiger," and the pioneer-figure, which by a number of double inversions, we may conclude to be John Harvard...
...third wife, Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26. Dolly, holding out for the standard $500,000 plum (the same amount Astor gave his first wife, and for which he is now being sued by his second), had offered hours of testimony to prove that J. J. was worse than a beast when aroused. Having characterized the testimony as' "the most filthy [evidence] I have ever heard," Gib-lin last week denounced Dolly as a "scheming, conniving, lying girl," whose charges were a "favorite weapon of gold diggers." Ruled he: "I am not going to extract money from the defendant...