Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coolidge, who is chairman of the A.C.L.U.'s Massachussets branch, withdrew his application when the A.C.L.U. informed him that the Committee on Cultural Freedom was going to press Mumford to reconsider his appointment...
...mother was a Virginia Stuart, descended from an impressive roster of jurists and socialites-but not, as reported, directly from Confederate General James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart. Jeb apparently was a distant kinsman, a member of what Outerbridge's forebears joked was "the cadet branch of the family...
...Washington apartment, at 5:30 a.m. to read for an hour. At 7 o'clock his wife, Dorothy (they met at a Science church in 1918 in Shanghai, where her father, James Cowen, worked for Millard's Weekly and Hughes was working for the National City Bank branch), announces that she is ready with breakfast: orange juice, one egg, two strips of bacon, hot lemonade. (Hughes's other culinary tastes are mostly simple. He likes steaks, roast beef and pudding, but also has a flaring passion for curry-derived from a four-year tour of bank duty...
...beat her when they got drunk, and one day she ran away. Left alone, she skidded fast and hit bottom hard in a San Francisco gutter. Sent back to mother in Manhattan, she tried to kill herself and couldn't. In the end she walked into a branch office of Alcoholics Anonymous. It was the beginning of a cure and a comeback that has carried Lillian Roth, at 45, into a second career as a nightclub singer...
...University of California has agreed to provide the ruggers with free room, board, and medical attention during their stay. It has also pledged a minimum of $2,700 towards the team's travelling expenses. This money will come from ticket sales and a covering guarantee from the California branch of the Harvard Alumni Association...