Word: elliots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Investigation of Hughes-Kalser contracts continued yesterday with examination of Grover Loening, former special consultant to the war production board. This witness remained vague as to Elliot Roosevelt's role in the dispensation of government contracts, but he particularly exonerated "the White House" of any favoritism...
...Elliot Paul is a literary handyman who once announced that he had found Paradise and went to live there. When his paradise (the village of Santa Eulalia on the Balearic island of Iviza) was bombed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Paul got out and wrote the moving Life and Death of a Spanish Town. Six years later, wearing his nostalgia for Paris on his sleeve, he hit the bell again with The Last Time I Saw Paris, a gamy, garlicky recollection of Left Bank life. Now he is going back where he came from. Linden...
LINDEN ON THE SAUGUS BRANCH (401 pp.) - Elliot Paul - Random House...
Linden, where Elliot Paul grew up, is an outlying part of the city of Malden, Mass., on the outskirts of Boston. Employing either the faculty of total recall or a ready knack for improvisation, Paul sets down in detail a persuasive picture of New England life at the turn of the century. Author Paul is essentially a yarn-spinner, and Linden is largely a string of amusing and often indelicate anecdotes, but those who knew the area and the people will vouch for the genuine flavor...
...third House dining hall, Lowell conservatism made heat wave diners wear coats to meals, but not neckties. A House order, signed by House master Elliot Perkins '23, described coats as that "type of garment normally so defined in adult society...