Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from the problem of how to get your laundry done (usually solved by buying new haberdashery), Elson and Booth encountered others that will become standard when next year's campaign gets under way. One was how to keep up with the men they were covering and still find time to write good, readable daily copy for TIME'S editors. Booth got considerable practice writing his on a jouncing portable balanced on his knees in a chartered bus. Elson found that between midnight and dawn in the privacy of his Pullman bedroom was the best time...
...once killed a Negro). Danny waited for "Grandpa" to back out his battered 1941 Ford coupe. Ivins touched the starter button. An explosion ripped the car apart. Danny, bowled over by the blast, was not seriously hurt. Burkett Ivins lived long enough to mutter: "I'm done in for good-but to think they would do that to my Danny." Beside him was his .45 Colt automatic...
...plan, Parker holds, is a commercial one designed to save students both money and time in getting their laundry done...
Objections, he said, were mainly that (1) "if it's to be done, it should be done for everyone-not just the Houses". (2) architectural arrangements of some of the House basements make it impossible to accommodate a machine and the attendant drier...
...feel the contributions ought to be voluntary," Bingham says, "and therefore we are not adding a percentage to the tickets as is being done at some athletic contests. In other Olympic games this has worked quite satisfactorily; in fact we had contributed $1000 to the 1940 Olympic preliminaries before the games were officially called...