Word: byes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting of the captains of the three top teams recently, Company C drew a bye; therefore Monday F-G and Lowell will meet, and the winner is slated to play Company C Thursday in the first tournament's final game...
...chaise longue in a negligee trimmed with marabou," Perelman glanced at the "Why Don't You?" department in Harper's Bazaar: "Why don't you try the effect of diamond roses and ribbons flat on your head, as Garbo wears them when she says good-bye to Armand. . . ?" "Why don't you travel with a little raspberry-colored cashmere blanket?" "Why don't you twist [your daughter's] pigtails around her ears like macaroons?" That chance glance changed Perelman's life. He would become a writer...
...horse operas - to look after her ailing mother. A shameless doll lover, she dressed up a small bisque (ceramic) baby doll for a friend who worked at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Next day she had 450 orders from admiring Met employes. Of her original "Hush-a-bye Baby" model she now says, "it became so popular we had to drop it." It gave her no time for her main idea: to make collections of "storybook dolls" illustrating nursery tales and jingles...
...argument. Budget Director Harold D. Smith, trying as a patient civil servant to argue for the Treasury program, found the Ways & Means Committee an impatient listener. (Said one jocular member: "Mr. Smith came to town and after a couple of Democrats got through with him it was Good-bye Mr. Chips.") Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, who tried to convince the Committee that nothing less than $13.8 billion in new taxes would stave off inflation ($6 billion to be re fundable after the war), heard his program branded as "amazing," "fantastic...
Class E is particularly happy about the new baseball program. Having come out of the School championships as the official second-best team, the gang will now have a few more innings to show what is in them, E has drawn a bye in the first game and in the second will meet the winner of the Class K-Faculty contest. Not wishing our senior friends in K any hard luck we hope that the Faculty will win. The E boys having been up against the Faculty in various other capacities heretofore would now like to meet them...