Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these days the Queen of Beantown Burlesque since your Dad's college days, Ann Corio, is doing war relief work. Her local agent quoted her as declaring, "I'd give the skirt off--" but lot the bare facts speak for themselves...
...Pearl Harbor fathers and their families are the subjects of the latest article by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology. The article, distributed nationally by the United Press, agrees with neither Burnet Hershey nor Burton Wheeler, and discusses the classical effect on the family by the "loss of dad...
...vote to call off the strike was unanimous. On the same day Private Albert Daggert, 19, wrote home from Fort Lewis, Wash. It said: "Tell Dad not to get too radical at work, for the fellows in the service need that stuff...
...suggested theme for local laundries might be, "Why go elsewhere and wait? Leave your laundry here." ... Maybe I should be a little kinder to the laundrymen hereabouts for now they are nice enough to send me my buttons back ... Does your Dad need a former khaki shirt now a stop-light red for his V Garden scarecrow? ... I could let him have the one I just got back real cheap. I don't know when I could wear it unless I began selling cocoa coals on street corners...
...days when most Harvard men were graduated into Wall Street or Dad's office, the College's function was that of training Cardinal Newman's "gentleman"--he who "carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast." But since that day, our nation has come to know many things--the glitter and disillusionment of World War I, the shoddy decade of demoralization that followed demobilization, the years of leanness and social waste, the present conflict. As we have learned the lesson, so has Harvard realized that its most important duties...