Word: christmases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the Dumps. Not everyone, however, was so disapproving of the avalanche of expensive gaiety as Mrs. Grundy and Laborite George Thomson. Hotel managers purred happily as they scanned supper-room bookings, filled up solidly to Christmas. A wholesale caviar merchant reported "our best year ever." Dance pianists, even not...
In this first-novel winner of the Houghton Mifflin award, Author Burdick gives a reverse twist to the cozy U.S. sociological convention that coarse, conservative fathers produce sensitive, nonconformist sons. It is a study of Mike Freesmith, whose father was a radical so militant he once smashed the family Christmas...
Last week, as the talks broke down completely, Marshall declared grimly: "This is a day of mourning for a great opportunity lost: an opportunity to make friends with the people of Asia." The British proposals had been "Christmas pudding with arsenic sauce." At a press conference his eloquence got the...
In the dreary period between the Yale Game and Christmas, Henry had his advisees to his home for dinner and they talked excitedly about what Harvard was doing to them and for them. "Boy, I thought I was working in high school," one said, "but it was nothing like this...
On the Chicago Board of Trade, the star performer for weeks has been the versatile soybean, the eighth most valuable U.S. farm crop. Since the first of the year, Europe's freeze, which ruined the olive-oil crop, has sent the oily soy soaring nearly $1 a bushel to...