Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fearlessly consume any type of meadow grass." He collects fresh mowings, washes them tenderly, sets them out in the sun to dry, then nibbles them with fruit and cheese, or tosses them up with dressing in a variety of tasty salads. Sample: grass mowings with "broken Dad's Cookie Biscuits and currants"; with equal quantities of rose petals; with uncooked oats. In the fall, he dries and stores his grass as hay. He never cheats by cooking...
...years ago my small son, who had read in the newspaper of some executive receiving $75,000 a year, asked: "Dad, how can a man be worth $75,000 to a corporation?" My reply was to the effect that he could only be worth it if he did not cost the corporation any money; in other words, he would have to produce more than his salary...
...Rutgers' varsity eight: the second annual Dad Vail Regatta, No. 1 rowing event for minor-league college crews; outrowing eight other eights over the Henley distance (one mile and five-sixteenths); on the Connecticut River at Springfield, Mass. Marietta finished second, Springfield third. ∧Long-swatting little Ben Hogan of Fort Worth, Tex.: the third annual Goodall Round Robin golf tournament-in which each of 15 invited pros scores plus one for every hole he wins, minus one for every hole he loses to each of the other 14 with a score of plus 23; over Long Island...
...Instead of making a profit for 1939 our company lost a lot of money. We think our company lost money because so many grocers quit handling Hillbilly flour because dad was trying to get some kind of a tax bill* passed so the State could pay pensions to the old folks. . . . But we had a big surprise coming...
Married. Peggy Ann Kent, 22, daughter of Sidney Raymond Kent, president of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.; and Ernest Westmore, 35, make-up expert; each for the third time; in Warrenton, Va. Said she: "We haven't received Dad's blessings, but we have his permission...