Word: burges
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first fight was called a bore and a fraud. Sportswriters have been proclaiming for months they wouldn't go to the rematch if it were held in their own back yard. Boston chased the fight out of town and now it's being held in some godforesaken burg called Lewiston, Maine...
Erie ("I was dragged up in Erie, P-A -some punk burg") has returned to his fleabag hotel one night in 1928, after a five-day mourning binge. Ostensibly, he is grieving for Hughie, the recently deceased night clerk, but actually he grieves for himself. Hughie was Erie's false mirror image, the man who gave him the confidence to see himself as he is not. Hughie was the heaven-sent sucker who believed that Erie was the lovemaster of Ziegfeld Follies girls, that Erie beat the "bangtails," the cards and the dice, and hobnobbed with big-time Broadway...
...replied, "I survived." If Soviet NoveMst llya Ehrenburg were asked about his own activities during the 20-year Stalinist terror, he might well give the same answer. Considering that just about every eminent Russian writer and artist was exiled, executed or hounded to suicide by the paranoid dictator, Ehren-burg's survival is one of the most remarkable literary achievements of modern times...
...Radcliffe winners are: Jane D. Andelman; Jean Ann Burg; Susan E. Carey; L. Christie Dickason; Ann M. Graybiel; Lorella M. Jones; Lillian M. Li; Stephanie Raushenbush; Mrs. Antonia Kern Ridington; Nancy L. Silverman; Mrs. Dorothy Giles Souvaine; Gail E. Thain; Mrs. Marilyn Robinson Waldman; and Emily Zack...
House representatives on the senior committee are Jean A. Burg of Jordan J and Painesville. Oklo, Mary-Elisabeth Melbach of Wolbach Hall and North Haven, Coun., and Susan J. First of Moors Hall and New York...