Word: conning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today the Student Council is making the next logical step in its work of improving the Dining Halls' service. The poll which it is taking will determine undergraduate sentiment, pro and con, on the desirability of having student waiters in the Houses. It was seen from the first that no dogmatic statement could be made on the subject until the student body was polled. There are too many intangibles to make a hard-and-fast policy otherwise. Student waiting will afford many jobs for those who need them, and may reduce the board rate appreciably. But again...
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...Yves Mirande, director of many a gay French cinema comedy, had a motoring smashup in Mâcon, France, was treated for his injuries by the Doctors Denis pére et fils. Recently Doctor Jean and Son Raymond took their lawyer to see Une Petite Fortune, a new Yves Mirande film in which a village doctor gets the local mayor to remove warning signs from a dangerous crossroads, waxes rich patching up motorists when they crash. "Libel!" roared the lawyer, and Director Mirande was promptly sued by Denis pére et fils. "My film is a pure fantasy...
...Weakened by the long campaign in China, Japan con centrated during the fall and early winter...
...very famous woman novelist," con tinued Dr. Lewis, "came to consult me not long ago about her neurosis. I recognized her trouble and told her I could cure her but she would no longer write novels if I did. She, of course, desired treatment, but I decided that it would be a pity to destroy a fine novelist and so I refused to cure her and so she is continuing to write fine novels...