Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what he is!" When the jury came in with a guilty verdict, Mickey, who is now 25, turned as white as lard: he faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in the penitentiary. But with luck and good behavior he will probably be out in plenty of time to collect his inheritance, due in 1960. Other punishment has already been visited upon him: he has served 6½ months in the workhouse for unlicensed possession of deadly weapons, and his name has dropped out of the Social Register. As for Pat, she was dropped out of café society...
...Carlos, one of the most merciless lampoons anywhere. Starting weeks ahead, the students shamelessly shake down politicos and merchants for expenses, adding to the fund receipts from a scurrilous vaudeville show and a scandal sheet that flouts all libel laws. With the $25,000 to $30,000 they collect, the students build big floats that are, in effect, moving stages for the outrageous and often obscene skits and tableaux they spend weeks devising. A week before Good Friday, while the capital watches goggle-eyed, the students belt down quantities of donated rum and parade the floats through the streets. Invariable...
...kind of personal history, it is all about others, the heroes he worshiped. It is a rambling book, tumbled about with scraps of Granny's syndicated verse-it used to be said that he was the only man in the U.S. who could wire a poem collect. There are also recollections of college days at Vanderbilt. But mostly, the book is packed with nostalgic stories that call back the champions of the golden...
Five years ago the scourge began to collect its toll: within a few months the two youngest of seven children died; next the mother went, and a brother, 10. Last year the father died, and Berna dette, new head of a family, was coughing and losing weight. Then at last she saw a doctor. County officials moved fast...
...amount raised did not surprise Kemble. "The sum pretty well meets our expectations," he said, "and we hope to raise a great deal more as more people become aware of the issues involved. When we started out, we expected to be able to collect $10,000 and I still think we'll meet that...