Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is nothing," declared the prosecuting attorney, "to prevent boys and girls at any hour from visiting each other in their bedrooms, and it is done." The court was told by the prosecutor that once, when one teen-aged boy dared another to seduce the school's middle-aged housekeeper, Assistant Headmaster Edward Reynolds had cracked, "I'll bet you a pound to a penny that you don't." Another witness said that the children were forever talking about sex in "short Anglo-Saxon words." A former matron at the school admitted having given one girl...
...Weeks surveyed the 10,000 customers it served last year. Findings: 1) 51% of the customers had incomes of less than $7,500 a year; 2) 49.9% of all transactions fell in the "little fellow" category (i.e., were for less than $1,000); 3) 74% of the trading was done in "cheap" stocks (less than...
...never bothering his head about; if he did, he would find it about as unrewarding after study as before. But there is another kind that, like differential calculus and other forms of honest brainwork, has a permanent beauty worth a closer look. Of all living writers, none has done more as a critic to keep this distinction clear or more as a poet to illustrate it than bush-bearded, 42-year-old Englishman William Empson, who now lives by choice in Peiping. For years Empson's work has been admired by people who would put their minds...
...Court. On the evidence given in Dry Messiah alone, most readers will probably conclude that he was guilty as charged by church and state. But thousands of prohibitionists were ready to accept the denials of the man who had done so much to whip the saloon. Cannon's favorite tactic was to sue his detractors for huge amounts in libel suits that he tried to settle for small amounts out of court. In his day he sued a Congressman for $500,000 and William Randolph Hearst for a total of $7,500,000. He lost the one, settled...
...pointed straight at the title, The Lawton Story, "A Picture That Does Something to Your Soul." As the film went into release last week, the two live-wire Ohio promoters who made it were confident that religion would serve them as well at the box office as sex has done since...