Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francis S. Smith never dreamed things would turn out that way when they took over the New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855. Editing their magazines and paperbacked books for men only, they bought the humor of Bill Nye and Josh Billings, the Buffalo Bill stories of Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), the dime novels by Nick Carter (Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), 1,000 stories about Frank Merriwell by Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten...
...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 a contraceptive, though she recalled that...
Airlines. Edward V. Rickenbacker's tightly run ("We squeeze the pennies and then we squeeze the mills") Eastern Air Lines made a profit last year, as usual. On an alltime record gross of $66.5 million, Eastern turned in a net of $2,350,000 (98? a common share), almost double the 1947 figure...
...mind spin back to livelier days. He remembered his devilish sister Lucy, who willfully eloped with Puggy Brown, the butcher; Lucy had scrubbed floors, suffered humiliation and yet found happiness in Puggy's gypsy crusade as leader of a revivalist sect. He remembered his own brilliant brother Edward, who rose to power as a Liberal politician and later came to a colorful, if disappointing, end. These people had made mistakes, thought Tom, but they had taken chances. They had been of the real England "whose nature was rather affection than passion; whose gaiety was rather humor than wit; whose...
Children with allergic parents should keep snakes as pots, Dr. Edward S. O'Keefe, instructor in Pediatrics, told the American council of Allergists at their Chicago meeting yesterday...