Word: chases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went down together with vaudeville, pursued by child-welfare officers and cops hunting for the bales of towels Mother filched from hotels. To escape, Baby June eloped when she was 13 with one of the chorus boys, aged 18, outran Mama in a breathless chase to the honeymoon train. Big Sister Gypsy was booked by Mama in a Kansas City burlesque house, soon struck a jackpot at Minsky's in Manhattan and put up Mama in velvety splendor in a flat above the honky-tonks of 42nd Street...
Developers are local realtors John Briston Sullivan and William J. Chase...
...they needed and then, at harvest's end, paid each victim barely enough to get home again. When the French tried to gather evidence against Houphouet, who was then following the Communist line, they found not a single African who would inform. The French soon gave up the chase-having made a conquest. After throwing off his Communist ties. Houphouet popped up in Paris, became French West Africa's leading champion of cooperation with France. Paris poured money into the Ivory Coast, and Houphouet himself, already a member of the French National Assembly, became the indispensable black...
...Guard hired a light plane to spot the invasion fleet and a pair of lumbering launches to chase it. Tito divided his forces, left Dame Margot weeping aboard Nola as he and Elaine churned off over the horizon. When the Guard's launches appeared, Margot led them away from Elaine, then scooted back to Panama City. Tito went ashore close to his family farm, 75 miles west of the capital...
Junior varsity: Bow, J. Bross; 2, J. Lynch; 3, I. Brestler; 4, D. Harde; 5, G. Gund; 6, R. Chase; 7, R. Gosse; Stroke, F. Cabot; coxswain, J. Pelofsky...