Word: eighteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie story of the Soviet spy ring in Canada, The Iron Curtain, fades out on a pastoral scene: Igor Gouzenko, the Russian code clerk who tipped off the Mounties, strolls down a country lane with his wife to safety. Eighteen months ago, when Gouzenko did just that, he said: "I consider myself a Canadian...
...Eighteen years ago this week, when she sat down at the keyboard of Hearst's Herald, newsmen laughed. They knew Eleanor Patterson Gizycka Schlesinger, then 46, as a willful society woman turned big-game huntress and rancher, who had married a Polish count and regretted it, then a lawyer who died four years later. Even Hearst, who first hired her, underestimated her newspapering instinct, almost as keen as that of her brother, Joe Patterson, or Cousin Bertie McCormick...
During the uproar Stravinsky was at Nijinsky's side in the wings: "[Nijinsky] was standing on a chair, screaming sixteen, seventeen, eighteen'-they had their own method of counting time. [But] naturally the poor dancers could hear nothing ... I had to hold Nijinsky by his clothes, for he was furious, and ready to dash on to the stage at any moment . . . Diaghilev kept ordering the electricians to turn the lights on or off, hoping in that way to put a stop to the noise...
...about and jumping frantically to get hold of a piece of a wreath. This, surely, is progress. And in the nineteenth century President Lowell exulted "What a glorious object is a Senior on Class Day to a maiden of sixteen." Today, there will probably not be a girl under eighteen in Harvard Yard, and this, too, is progress. It is the sort of progress that can create confidence in the future of Harvard College and in the future--all the more unlimited because unnumbered--of the institution of Class...
...Eighteen House players showed how House baseball should be played yesterday afternoon when Winthrop downed Lowell in a tight one, 4 to 2. It was anybody's ball game to the seventh inning: Bellboy errors had contributed the run needed to tie up the contest...