Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They got $625 from a Filipino lawyer, put up $825 between themselves. The editors took pen names: Utin, whose name is a dirty word in Tagalog, became Eric Raymond. His partner, wanting something fancier than Schutz, became Chris Edwards. The first issue of the Philippine-American was peddled in horse-drawn jitney carts, was a 2,000-copy sellout...
...public official responsible to his electorate, these would be strong temptations. Harry Truman put temptation behind him. This week, presenting his 1947 budget to Congress, he candidly set forth what fancier bookkeepers might have hidden: the budget for the year ending June 30, 1947 was still out of balance by $4,347,000,000. To hold 1947's deficit even to this figure, he said, the nation would have to pay the same kind of taxes it was paying right...
...networks, plus BBC, CBC, and some 30 individual U.S. radio stations, had reserved space in the Veterans' Memorial Building for daily, on-the-spot reports of the public sessions. There were also elaborate plots to get inside the smoke-filled committee rooms - and the extra-special plans grew fancier as the opening day approached. Samples...
...Rumba Fancier. Among the magazine's famed editors have been Waldemar Kaempffert (now science editor of the New York Times); and the late, brilliant Edward E. Free. But Scientific American has been dominated by the family which has owned and published it through almost its entire career, the Manhattan Munns, one of Ward McAllister's original "400." Present editor and publisher (third in the line) is Orson Desaix Munn, 61, a patent lawyer, crack bird hunter and fisherman, rumba fancier, familiar figure in Manhattan café society. He passes on everything that goes into the magazine...
Samuel Untermyer, millionaire lawyer, politico, orchid fancier, who died in 1940, was revealed in an executor's account to have set up a $30,000-a-year trust fund for his "very dear friend," Mrs. Marguerite Herczeg, widow of a Hungarian nobleman. Mrs. Herczeg was "astonished to learn the secret...