Word: booths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst homecoming present that Bridegroom Antony Armstrong-Jones got on his return to London from his Caribbean honeymoon was news that his well-tailored effigy had mysteriously vanished from Madame Tussaud's famed wax museum. Last week, in an outdoor phone booth only a mile from Madame's, the waxen Tony was found. When "Tony" was escorted back to the waxworks, London bystanders did several double takes at what appeared to be Princess Margaret's true love on his way home after an extremely rough night...
...farmer in Aleih: "Today I was ready to fight anyone who offered me 10, 20 or 50 pounds to buy my vote. We have finally understood that each one is a free man-and it was that particular pride which touched me a while ago as, hidden in the booth, I placed in the envelope the names which pleased me most...
...every 20 minutes, and who is it but Mrs. O'Leary there, coming out of the heat with an actual cow-trained to moo at crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...
Died. Keyes Winter, 81, boyhood Indianapolis neighbor of Booth Tarkington and model for Penrod, who became a Manhattan lawyer and for 19 years a judge of New York City's municipal court; of a heart attack; in Syosset...
Dann, refusing to yield the floor: "No, but I wish some of the directors were [loud laughter]. Oh, I wish I had an isolation booth for you. I'd ask some $64,000 questions, and you wouldn't get the answers beforehand, either...