Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burden of Yale's offensive chores is carried by a trio of fast-skating 150-pounders-Artie Moher, Gordy Ritz, and Fred Pearson, Moher, pivot man on the first line, is currently the team's top point-collector and leading playmaker with an 18-game total of 15 goals and 22 assists. His wing-mate Ritz has been pushing him all season and presently boasts a point total of 32. These two will be joined on the first line by Barry Wood who was elevated to that spot at the beginning of the streak and has a 14 point aggregate...
...Collector's Items. In Paris, police needed six trucks to haul away the odds & ends (including some granite statues, a park bench, 139 wigs, two dozen ice skates for the left foot) amassed over 15 years by Kleptomaniac Robert Bury...
...painted ten hours a day, every day. His work was as doggedly patterned as herringbone cloth. He never used a model for his nudes, explaining that at his age he "couldn't very well bring a nude woman in and paint her. It wouldn't look right." Collector Sidney Janis, Hirshfield's discoverer, thinks that Stage Beauties with Angels (see cut) grew out of a burlesque-show memory. Hirshfield was always having model trouble. For his Lion painting he tried the zoo, pictures at the public library, stuffed specimens at the American Museum of Natural History...
Warned N.E.A.: "Teachers are no longer willing to work for starvation wages. They refuse to stay in a profession with salaries less than those of the bartender and garbage collector...
Connecting with his relationship with Miss Prince was a $3.26 entry in Parkhurst's Cambridge Trust Company checkbook. The check was made out to the Tax Collector of South Hamilton, Miss Prince's home...