Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obtaining a dog-walker, a perfume smeller, or even a baby-sitter, the hope of Boston employers is the Radcliffe Employment Bureau. In the past three years, the Bureau, headed by Mrs. Mary Shaw, has been filling such requests from her file-jammed office on the second floor of Fay House, in the Radcliffe Quad...
...department, has always made sure of. This year she started the program off with a battle of wits, set eight quiz kids to answering such questions as: "What did Caesar say when he crossed the Rubicon? What is a Pyrrhic victory? What is the name of the three-headed dog that guarded Hades?" After that came a Latin movie about the Second Punic War, then a Plautus play called The Twins from Syracuse, and a rendering of the Marine song that no marine would ever recognize (Ab aulis Montezumae Tripolis ad litora . . .). Finally, after singing Te Cano, Patria, the audience...
...such big news in the embalming business. In Manhattan last week, Dr. Carlos José Rodriguez Fernández, a Venezuelan dentist, announced that he has concocted "a fluid which will destroy putrefaction from the face of the earth." He has the well-preserved carcasses of a donkey, a dog and a 1,500-lb. horse once ridden by Venezuela's late President Delgado-Chalbaud as mute monuments to his success...
...Navy was asked by a representative of PBH to give a hand in the Blood Drive. It seemed only natural that as one of the services they would expect us to do so. If we had not, you really would have news--like MAN BITES DOG...
Last fall, it was a cinch to cinch yourself. This spring your dirndl cries for a waist-whittling belt, of even wider and more alluring contours. After extensive tests, our model hit upon shiny cowhide contrasted strikingly with even-textured cottons. Departures from standard materials--straw, dog-leases, and metal--will spice up informal, summery outfits...