Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years later, Eleanor Roosevelt had lunch with Mrs. Pusey and the Harvard Dames at 17 Quincy Street. One of the maids tripped a few feet away from Mrs. Roosevelt while carrying a wooden salad bowl, catapulting its contents not far from her lap. Mrs. Pusey's reaction, a tersely graceful comment: "The salad, really and truly, is tossed...
...same time, other Ivy League schools have fielded the strongest freshman teams McCurdy has ever seen. "Cornell's freshmen were just unbelievable," he says, and the Big Red's IC4A Freshman championship would confirm his statement. Dartmouth had two standouts one of whom ran Mark Mullin off his feet...
...keep within the maximum height allowed by Cambridge zoning regulations, the architects have sunk the buildings into a court which is four feet below ground level. President Pusey commended Shepley, Bullfinch for having "conceived a pleasing design which makes excellent use of the limited space...
Though Tokyo's 600 aging geishas still keep up their traditional routine-the three daily sessions in the public baths, the facial massage with costly nightingale dung, the rubbing of the feet with pumice stone-their number is steadily dwindling. Promising nymphets now prefer to take on more explicit and less demanding jobs as cabaret girls; young men in search of kicks favor the nude shows that flourish all over town. To compete with the cabarets, the geishas have taken up such desperate sidelines as juggling and playing the xylophone-a far cry from the haughty geishas who were...
...producer (Du Pont Show of the Month) and the Custer of live TV drama (TIME, June 2), Susskind wanted to know why the writers had given up. Why not stay in the medium that produced Chayevsky's Marty and Arthur's A Man Is Ten Feet Tall? Their answer: because writing for stage or screen makes a man 20 feet tall-and a lot richer...