Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Nancy Traylor Souder, 29, wife of wealthy Kansas Oilman J. Robert Souder, ex-wife of Chicago Packinghouse Heir Nathan Burton Swift, and daughter of the late Melvin Traylor, organizer of the Bank for International Settlements and near-Presidential candidate in 1932; by falling or jumping from a Manhattan hotel window...
...Burton Black, a Warrant Machinist, had never married and was highly respected by his shipmates.... Winona White was a Navy Nurse and a career woman with no intention of losing her independence by entering the gates of matrimony.... A mild case of influenza resulted in Black's being a patient under the care of White, and from then on Black thought more of White and White thought less of a career.... Ignoring all preliminaries, suffice to say that Black maried White...
...strictly limited. I haven't heard it used for two or three years, but mention of crashes and crashing leads me to a mild rebuke. No mention of our slanguage is complete without mention of our most famous phrasing, and that is the expression "gone for a Burton." When anything or anybody is through for good, it or he is said to have "gone for a Burton." ... If one of your "oppos" (universal term for buddies) is killed, you don't say he was killed, you just say, "Poor old Joe has gone for a Burton." . . . There...
Died. The Reverend Dr. Norman Burton Barr, 75, pioneer Chicago social worker, founder and longtime superintendent of famed Olivet Institute, tenement dwellers' settlement house; of a heart attack; in Chicago. One of his enterprises was an "eviction house" for the temporary shelter of families thrown out of their homes...
...ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...