Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON checkup revealed last night that none of New Haven's seven biggest hotels have vacant rooms of any sort for the weekend. The Hotels Bishop, Court, Duncan, Garde, Stand, and Taft and the Lincoln House are all booked...
...California court ordered Movie Director Howard Hawks and his exwife, Nancy, to pay a year's grocery bill of $3,590. What boosted the total: 3 Ibs. of hamburger, almost daily, for the Hawks's four French poodles...
When Spanel, born in Russia but a U.S. citizen for about 35 years, won court rulings that it was libelous to imply that a man was a Communist and that the suits should go to trial, Pegler quit. Wrote he: "I gladly concede that the editorial advertisements ... were not Communist inspired and that Mr. Spanel is not and never has been a Communist or fellow traveler...
...such titillating headlines as WOMAN SCREAMED IN BUS QUEUE, CLERK WITH SPLIT MIND IN 4 A.M. HOTEL SCENE; UNCLE AND PARENT TO SAME CHILDREN; MEN THRASHED PIG UNTIL IT DIED. But what really sells the News of the World is not its headlines but its detailed, deadpan reporting of court testimony in all manner of sex and criminal cases. Sample, from last week's report of how BOY AGED 15 ACCUSES A MARRIED WOMAN: "The 15-year-old boy said in evidence that he often visited the house and played cards with [a married couple]. One night...
...taxpaying private ventures, the Government has not interfered so far. But it has already ordered the Mueller Co. to pay up its income taxes. There is nothing in making noodles, the Government contends, that is "charitable, scientific, literary or educational" (the statutory requirement for tax exemption for colleges). A court test, brought by Mueller, has not been decided. If the Government wins the case, it will slap a bill for back taxes on all the company's profits since the sale, and presumably go after some of the other big deals...