Word: chums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...
...like him if you've seen him the way we have. If you were a mother or father, Bob's the kind of guy you'd want for a son; if you were a fellow, you'd want him for a chum; and if you were a girl-well, just look...
...second child, now let me see, what was his name? Bullfinch? Clapsaddle? For the life of me I can't remember! But I'll never forget Phineas Drybutter. A woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." One little girl repeated this story to her best chum, who said: "Why! my grandmother told just the same story-with different names, of course." And the little girls looked at each other wide-eyed, and said in solemn unison: A woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." Thus was an old saying born...
...favorite in the show. One advance-guard offering, a section of weathered wood decorated with horseshoe nails and bright paint, drew indignant snorts. "Pay $350 for that piece of wood?" exclaimed a shopgirl. "I wouldn't have it in my house." "You can say that again," agreed her chum. Next to one garish green and red abstraction labeled The Eye (price: $1,400) somebody hung a piece of rope with the tag, "Hunk of Rope...
Incorruptible. In Chicago, bracing himself for this summer's national political conventions, Traffic Police Chief Michael Ahern advised his 1,100 cops to avoid calling delegates "Bud" or "Chum...