Word: existent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...groaning old world of aristocratic England. Stuffing the precious notebooks into his striped-pants pocket, Charley Raunce boldly seats himself in the dead man's high chair at the head of the servants' table, determined to carry on a way of life that actually has ceased to exist. He is now "Mr. Raunce," butler-king of the castle; as he surveys the long table-the older servants mourning the dear departed, the housemaids coy and giggly-life takes on a new shape. "And the wicked shall flourish even as a green bay tree," cries the old housekeeper...
Charles Munch made his debut as permanent conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra this weekend, and effectively demolished the illusions of certain musical cynics who held Koussevitzky and the B. S. O. synonomous, and claimed neither could exist without the other...
...whole, the supplementary services are functionally related to the schools in which they exist, and so, on the whole, they should not be granted to private and parochial schools. But this is a delicate point of law and far removed from the name calling that has been going on in the newspapers...
Last week, the Budapest burlesque reached its inevitable finale. The "defense" faithfully cooperated. Said Rajk's lawyer: "He was only a tool. Such crimes as his could not exist if there were no warmongers." Said the lawyer for Lieut. General Gyorgy Palffy, former chief of staff of the Hungarian army: "I must defend this man in spite of the loathing I feel...
...woman had arrived at the field by taxi. She had a package which was suspiciously overweight for its size, but with the plane already warming up, the clerk rushed it aboard. The package was addressed to a Mr. Larouche at Baie Comeau. Mr. Larouche, it turned out, did not exist...