Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rooms and a bath is the standard student apartment-two rooms complete with a fireplace each; and a bath complete with a tub measuring 3 1-2 feet in length, an old-fashioned pull-chain toilet, and a marble washstand. Paul Miller '46 and his wife, Marjorie, have one of the few suites which is equipped with a shower. Necessarily, too, claims Miller, who measures 6 feet-seven, a height which Brunswick tubs were obviously not designed to accommodate...
...didn't even have to pay extra. In towns where toilet paper was short it was only necessary to haunt hotel washrooms to get a pocketful of the stuff. Housewives in New York's suburban Westchester County maintained espionage networks, reporting to each other the arrival of chain-store trucks, and got first grab. Although it was always correct to tip, when in doubt, it was often possible to become a preferred customer simply by beaming at the high prices. And if you knew the right man in the right line anything was possible...
...thing his chain of papers needed, said shrewd little Roy Howard, was a change of pace. The Scripps-Howard chain had a full stable of heavy and medium-heavy thinkers. What was needed was lighter, belt-level reading matter-about meat, sex, the movies. Result: by last week 30-year-old Robert C. Ruark, a balding, Southern-accented graduate of the sports pages, was the country's fastest-climbing columnist. His readily readable pieces, studded with flip and flossy phrases, were running in 19 Scripps-Howard papers and 20 others. He was making $500 a week...
...considers ex-Harvardman William Randolph Hearst "the biggest hypocrite alive" for his chain's campaign against so-called smutty literature, in view of the sexsational stories and headlines featured by his papers. Isenstadt believes that the next target of Mr. Hearst and the censors will be Charles Jackson's study of homosexuality, "The Fall of Valor." The novel is prominently displayed in the ULBE and will so continue, says Mr. I, despite Hearst's "nasty campaign...
...chain reaction that led to such drollery started back in 1876, when, according to the chroniclers, Ralph Curtis '76, "celebrated for his skill at caricature," Samuel Sherwood '76, "a clever draughtsman," and Arthur Sherwood '77, "the life of every party which he joined," put their moustaches together in a back room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari. Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest editions--a collectors' item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meerschaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls...