Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clement Raynaud, 48, a serious fellow, had always been interested in the occult, even when he was a cop. He got a diploma in graphology from one of those schools that advertise in pulp magazines. In a small laboratory in Toulouse in 1946 he began making a secret perfume of eau de cologne, Cyprian essence, ferns, the excretions of vipers and scorpions. Raynaud advertised: "This perfume is especially prepared to help you, even through the mails, to seduce, charm, or to awaken in you and in others troubling desires. To fortify your amorous magnetism, just a drop on a love...
Onie's Diplomatic Doorman. Bill Boyle got through the Kansas City School of Law, and, in 1926, was admitted to the bar. He stuffed his diploma in a desk, went to work selling gas appliances, and married a stenographer named Genevieve Hayde. If Bill had failings, greed was not among them. A friend recalls: "He'd make $100 in the morning and take it easy around home the rest...
...Lois Sipuel Fisher, 27-the first Negro ever admitted (after a legal battle) to the University of Oklahoma Law School-got her diploma. Her record: "satisfactory...
Government can be and is to many now one on the finest excuses known to the undergraduate for procuring a diploma with the minimum of work. To others it can be tough as Chemistry and take just as many hours of hard labor...
...Platoon Leader program consists of two six-week summer training periods leading to a second lieutenant commission upon receiving a diploma...