Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please pass this on to Billy Ford: I was born in The Bronx. My father came to this country third-class steerage; although my mother was born in Philadelphia, her parents came over to this country third-class steerage too. Unfortunately I cannot trace my family tree too far . . . However, we do refer to our six-month-old daughter as "Her Royal Highness . . ." If this does not meet his specifications, he needn't feel badly because we can't afford a silly little thing like a $10,000 car anyway. And if we could, I wouldn...
Meanwhile, the Assistant Curator of Mammals and Birds of the Bronx Zoo reported that the two young male hippopotamuses there have shown no evidence of fear, frustration, or domination by females--as the Belgian zoologist contends. "Of course the environment may make a difference," Miss Grace Duvall added...
...winning the next three games, the Dodgers' hopes were still dim. Those three victories came in their own cozy Ebbets Field, where the fences are in easy range for hitters. But the seventh series game, the payoff, was to be played in spacious Yankee Stadium, the vast Bronx lot out of which no hitter, not even Babe Ruth, ever drove a baseball...
Hammering young Dodger pitcher Karl Spooner out of the box with five runs in the first innings, the Bronx Bombers were never in trouble...
...permit the establishment of new branches in localities in which adequate service already existed. So New York's Chase National, a bankers' bank with only 29 offices (all but two in Manhattan), merged with the Bank of Manhattan, acquired 67 branches spread across Queens. Brooklyn and The Bronx...