Word: bostonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this could have easily been avoided. On the second floor of the Student Club behind the shelves of books marked "travel" is the office of Mrs Inglis, Sympathetic of the midshipman's lot and eager to help him, Mrs. Inglis is the steering committee for things Bostonian. Anything from a Pope concert in season to a quiet game of bridge can be arranged upon notice. If, in the future, you have trouble understanding Boston customs or folklore, make her your haven...
Parker Buck found the Statler quite agreeable. He spent the evening maneuvering with a second lieutenant for the attentions of an attractive sultry Bostonian and won out even against these odds of flashing rank...
...declined to join the 80-station rebroadcast* on the ground that this radio dramatization of Selden Menefee's book Assignments: U.S.A. (a critical survey of wartime America) was more inclined to promote intolerance than tolerance. It was certainly bad advertising for Boston. Said the script: "Nearly every Bostonian you speak to-those who will open up at all-is conscious that something is radically wrong behind the scenes. Isolationism, antiSemitism, pro-appeasement are more rampant in Boston than in any city in the land. . . . The Irish are an absolute majority and run the city from top to bottom. They...
...occasion to visit Boston to see his favorite physician about a case of ulcers. Well, our subject, arriving at South Station, forthwith boarded a cab and was whisked to the Copley. What happened to him in the taxicab need not concern us here. To the ear of the trained Bostonian, however, the combination of "South Station" and "Copley" lacks a certain logical connection...
...distinction of being one of the two graduates of Boston University to have won 12 letters. Chief Clem was left halfback in football right wing in hockey, fancy diving ace of the swimming team, and a tennis star winning three letters in each of these four sports. A native Bostonian, he holds B.S. in education and an E.D.M. (master degree in physical education), both from...