Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard K. Berg '51 was chosen as Political Action Director; John S. Spier '50, as Harvard Affairs Director; and Gootenberg as Public Relations Director...
Every Girl Should Be Married (RKO Radio) describes the husband-hunting safari of a gawky young shop girl (Betsy Drake) who wants a husband to sit in a "big crunchee chair . . . so kind of pipee and bookee" beside the log fire (probably smokee). Her chosen prey is a morose baby specialist (Cary Grant). When he tries to escape, she lures him back toward the log fire by flirting with her boss (Franchot Tone). The boss is not skittish about marriage; he has tried it before. To knowing moviegoers, that sods him down. He stays in the running, all the same...
...formerly a horse auction barn). Some of them clustered at the piano and timidly tried out the unfamiliar words of the oldtime fox-trot I'm Just Wild About Harry. The 11½-month-old recording ban was over (see BUSINESS), and RCA Victor publicity men had chosen as Victor's first record a Christmas message for Harry Truman...
Tacho had chosen his side in Costa Rica during last spring's civil war. With angry frustration he had watched Figueres...
...deal, in effect, indicated that Trippe might have been right in his campaign for a "chosen instrument" on the North Atlantic. Smith, who had fought Trippe's chosen instrument and demanded competition, now says: "The foreseeable volume of business does not justify the continuation of three competing U.S. carriers on the North Atlantic routes...