Word: beechwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blind date one afternoon he met a girl from Beechwood School (now Beaver College) at Jenkintown, Pa. Often thereafter Tacho, flowers in hand, waited under the eagle in Wanamaker's to take Salvadora Debayle to a tea dance or movie. Later, to be near his Salvadorita, he stayed in Philadelphia for several years as bookkeeper at a Graham-Paige agency on Broad Street...
...getting on towards midnight. Robert Kenneth Taylor, Ottawa correspondent of the Toronto Daily Star, suddenly had a hunch. He called the Beechwood Avenue apartment of Fred Rose, the lone Communist in Canada's House of Commons. Taylor, as well as every other newsman in Ottawa, had heard persistent rumors that Rose had been arrested-or would be-in Canada's spy investigation. Now he asked Rose: what about...
...mistress of the editor of a St. Louis literary magazine. Lily settled down with her new husband in a five-room apartment on a St. Louis side street where the furnishings included an enormous bed of French Empire style, a William & Mary highboy, girandole mirrors, a sofa of beechwood, an upholstered rocker, and "a flock of odds and ends, worthless as antiques, but authentic relics of the ball-fringe, loveseat, blackwalnut, gilded-cattail era of curvature and upholstery. . . ." The strangest quality of Hallelujah is that without specific descriptions Fannie Hurst manages to make this superheated atmosphere quiver with a heavy...