Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bound and determined to make her husband sell his electrical invention to the power trust, accept a steady job and settle down in an all-electric house in the suburbs. Alternately dazzled by his wife's charm and enraged by her breezy feminine sophistry, Dick Shale (Bramwell Fletcher) is equally determined to exploit his invention on his own, buy back and return to his family's farm. Angela's chief weapon is her glib ability to change the subject of an argument. Slow-witted Dick's most effective device is to throttle her when she does...
...white waistcoat in Manhattan. All stores were closed. Author Wells called vainly upon the hotels, then telephoned his good friend George Creel, War-time head of the U. S. Propaganda Bureau. Democrat Creel was wearing his only white waistcoat to the Cummings dinner. He, however, called Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the Republican National Committee. Soon Republican Fletcher's waistcoat arrived-without buttons. Author Wells clutched it about his middle, hurried off to the Cummings Home, borrowed buttons from his host...
...list of ushers will include: Richard G. Fletcher, Jr. '35, head usher; Robert C. Hall '36, Ray J. Makewsky ocC, and Robert T. Rowe...
...summary: HARVARD YALE White, Lavietes, Moser, r.f. l.f., Watson, Larsen Boys, Mason, l.f. r.f., McNeil, T. Wilson Gray, Spring, c.c., McNeeley, E. Wilson Kollinites, Robinson, r.g. l.g., Carey, Miles Fletcher, l.g. r.g., Cummins, Armstrong...
Score--Harvard 35, Yale 18. Goals--Gary 6, Miles 3, Armstrong 2, Kollinites 2, Lavietes 2, White 2, T. Wilson 2, Mason 1, McNeil 1. Free throws--Fletcher 3, Gray 2, Boys 1, Kollinites 1, Mason 1. Miles 1, White 1, E. Wilson 1. Referee--Walsh: umpire--Kelleher. Time--two 20-minute periods...