Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls made a spectacular on trance. The lights were lowered to the accompaniment of disappointed boos, a hush came over the audience, and two dozen Central Massachusetts mermaids pranced to the water's edge to the tune of a liquid waltz played over the public address system. Twenty-four blue-clad forms dived in as one and glided into compelling formations. The one that excited most interest and speculation was the cartwheel, in which the fair ones split into groups of three. Two would tug at the legs of a third companion in what seemed to be an effort...
After discarding from the list of 35 Italian cardinals the 15 who are too old and the dozen Cardinals of the Curia, who have little chance of being elected, the conclave will probably elect one of the eight cardinal bishops of residential sees, according to Professor La Piana...
Last week, while major-league baseball players were polishing their golf clubs in preparation for the coming spring-training season, many a U. S. youth, with a yearlong accumulation of hard-earned nickels & dimes in his pocket, was hitchhiking south to one of the dozen baseball schools that have sprung up in the last five years. Baseball schools (geared to precede spring training) charge from $40 to $75 tuition for four-to six-week courses, make no guarantees to place graduates, serve as a showroom for talent as well as a classroom for instruction...
...Noting that in the 23 years since Metropolitan shifted to mutual status the management slate has never been opposed, Bill Douglas further noted that at election time it is customary for branch offices to instruct their agents to ask policyholders to sign election ballots. Last week more than a dozen Met agents claimed that it was general practice for them to sign the ballot themselves "in a more or less kidding spirit...
Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran of the White House Janizariat went to Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore), had his appendix removed. A friend who keeps up with doings in New Zealand (see p. 72) sent him one dozen fertile hens' eggs to take into bed with him and hatch out*-during his forced absence from plots & plans in Washington...