Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local sports writer's story three-handed Dick Harlow after the game simultaneously patted Ox DaGrosa's head, shook his hand, and stroked his shoulder. This probably was the neatest trick of the week even for a man referred to by another imaginative scribe as a "Machievellian fern fancier...
...band, 24 torch-carriers, a Crimson bedecked Great Dane, and a vintage 1920 Buick, owned by Bill Currier '50, of Wigglesworth Hall, the procession wound through the Yard, across Massachusetts Avenue and down Holyoke Street. At the Bow Street triangle, the first casualty of the night, Dutch-tile fancier Clemens P. Woop '00, was seen limping into his sanctuary...
...story of a hunted man and his struggle back to safety is too well known to demand repeating. The picture, however, does bear seeing again, even for a third or fourth time. Robert Newton as a mad artist searching for a mysterious "dying look"; the elfin, almost intangible bird fancier who is overjoyed when he finds a "caged" human; and the plump, insidious informer in a flowered dress who slyly traps the unsuspecting rebels these and the others present a pageant that stands up with Bank's best. Hollywood should watch out lest some wayward Goalie breath blow down...
...next two days were heavy with fog and rain. The Trumans passed them in relative quiet. With White House Physician Wallace Graham, an orchid fancier, the President clambered 1,000 feet up precipitous Corcovado Mountain behind the American Embassy. They found six orchid plants, one in bloom. Mrs. Truman and Margaret went out shopping, bought handbags, filigree jewelry and carved wooden animals. The President made a surprise appearance at the opera, drew a wild ovation...
...Saratoga, owners of fancier horse flesh, worth $5,000,000 or more, were nervous if not panicky. Some 25 horses which had been vanned in from New England in the past month were checked twice a day. At week's end Saratoga closed without a case of swamp fever; but not until frost, said the vets, can horse owners in the northeastern U.S. breathe easily...