Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announce: "This king stuff is fine, real fine. It's knocking me out-I've blowed my top." Blowed it he had. When the King failed to show up and blow his horn at the Zulu Ball that night, his Duke explained: "Man, that old Satchmo done drunk up all the champagne in this town...
...Camden, N.J., President Arthur E. Armitage of the College of South Jersey (475 students) got off a quip. Other colleges had done well for themselves by changing their names to honor a great benefactor, * he told his audience; it might be a good idea for South Jersey...
...critics and music lovers wondered if he could keep up the pace. Fellow violinists said that Tossy had made the difficult Bartok concerto his own, but that playing the classic concertos might be a different story. Since then Tossy has proved that Bartok is just one well-done chapter in his concert book...
When Albion Allen's estate was probated in Providence last week, the millworkers whistled in amazement. Allen set forth in his will that he had used his savings to play the market. He had done well. His estate in stocks was worth...
...Lewis' fiction, Aaron Gadd is an honest man. It is remarkable that at 64, after a career of vigorous scoffing, Lewis has written a serious study of an idealistic minister and presented him as a sensible and sympathetic character. It is still more remarkable that he has done so without ridiculing Aaron's personal struggle for grace and his hope of salvation, that he has made the forlorn life of the mission adventurous despite the total lack of adventurous incident, and that he has never let the whole affair fall below a plane of good-natured raillery...