Word: chums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dana Palmer house was built in 1823. It got the first part of its name from the builders, the Dana family, who lived there for ten years. Richard Henry Dana, the author of "Two Years before the Mast," grew up in the house; his chum James Russell Lowell once tried to ride a pony up the front stairs...
Last January when energetic, 37-year-old Sidney McMath became Arkansas' governor, he decided to do something about it, called his good friend and former school chum, Alfred Bryan Bonds Jr., home from his job as training director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to help out as State Education Commissioner. Already Arkansas had passed a referendum which cut the state's 1,500 school districts (many with less than 350 pupils) to an economical 428, abolished the 18-mill maximum on property taxes which had hamstrung most efforts to increase school allotments. But something...
...Chum. In the schools, especially, new impulses were shaking old Japanese ways. Boys & girls were now studying together where before the war they had been strictly segregated. With the new freedom, they were voicing their own opinions, instead of dutifully doing what their elders bade them...
...though thy portrait I retouch, Respectable señor, I could not love thee, Chum, so much, Loathed I not Stalin more...
...Squeak Like Mother's." The role of Fuffy, Judy's disconcerting chum, is also a neat bit of typecasting. She is Beverly Wills, 14, the strident, skinny daughter of strident, skinny Comedienne Joan Davis. Agent Polan vetoed more than 70 candidates before Beverly appeared, but Beverly was worth waiting for. With her mouthful of braces, untameable hair and raucous neigh, she out-fuffied Fuffy. Beverly is "just crazy" about Barbara, is trying to "develop more of a squeak - like my mother's." The program rates her ultimate gush : "I'd listen to it whether I were...