Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strange Hills. For the time being, Japan's plain people were still not mainly concerned with the road to democracy; they worried-like people in the best regulated societies-about the road that would lead them to the 'biggest bowl of rice. In a Tokyo saloon last week Mikizo Kawahara, an unemployed counterman, said: "It's useless to talk to me about democracy and new ideals-get me a job first!" A bearded grocer near by put down his cup of watered sake and nodded: "Life here," he said, "is like trying to do business...
Sometimes, when entertaining at home with his art-collecting wife, Marie Whitney Harriman, ECA's European chief finds his guests distracted from weighty conversation. His salon is hung with a pink Renoir, a blue Picasso, a Van Gogh bowl of yellow tulips, and a Gauguin. Said one of his dinner guests, later: "God, how could I concentrate on what he was saying, with those around...
Droop-eyed Cinemactor Robert Mitchurn, out on good behavior after serving 50 days of a 60-day stretch for conspiracy to possess marijuana, considered his carefree days in poky: "I had privacy there. Nobody envied me, nobody wanted anything from me. Nobody wanted my bars or the bowl of pudding they shoved at me through the slot." But things would be different from now on for the actor who had been a $3,250-a-week idol of U.S. bobby-soxers: "I'm typed-a character. I guess I'll have to bear that all the rest...
...April 30 Exetor (away) May 7 Andover (away) 14 MIT (tentative) 21 Yale (away) VARSITY SAILING April 3 Yale (Dual) at New London 17 Bowdoin (Dual) at Bowdoin April 19 Oberg Trophy at MIT 24 N.E. Champs--Elimination "B" at MIT May 1 Sharpe Trophy at Providence 7 Coastguard Bowl (N.E. Championships) at New London 8 N.E. Consolation at MIT 14 Owen Trophy (Ivy League Championships) at Edgewood, Rhode Island 21 Boston Dinghy Club Cup at MIT 28 USCGA (Dual) (tentative) 23 National Championships at Michigan (tentative) FRESHMAN SAILING April 17 Yale (away) 24 Octagonals at New London
...cops found him busy over a bowl of corn flakes and milk in a house in the Roxbury section of Boston; some kids had come upon him wandering about the street, and had taken him home. One of the cops looked over the child in the tattered dresses and rumbled: "What's your name, little girl?" Piped the child: "I'm not a little girl. I'm a boy." His name, he said, was Gerald. Later, from clues he gave them, they found his mother, Mrs. Anna Sullivan, 45, in her third-floor apartment over on Terry...