Word: foye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anybody in Canterbury's highly impressed audience of 500 had seen the girls a few hours earlier, the disciplined performance might have seemed even more impressive. Instead of a raptly dedicated chorus, an Englishman would have seen a crowd of average-looking American girls (with names like Foy, Gallaudet, Zuromskis, Lutov, Pierson, Schmidt, Saltonstall) scuffling their low-heeled shoes, swinging their shoulder bags, gaping at the sights...
...five men who volunteered to crawl to his rescue one day in World War I when he was an infantry captain, cut off and trapped in a German-held segment of the Argonne. Last week four of the surviving men - Patrick J. Carroll, N.Y., Peter Finucane, The Bronx, Richard Foy, N.J. and John Duffy, Brooklyn - plus his old orderly, Samuel Silverstein, Camp Gordon, Ga., learned that Judge Patterson had left each of them a token bequest...
There were solid facts behind their fancy. Star's Pride had beaten Lusty Song, driven by Foy Funderburk, in three straight races this season. Discouraged by that kind of record, Owner Hayes had fired Trainer-Driver Funderburk ten days before the race. Driver Del Miller, a 37-year-old veteran, and thus a stripling* by harness racing tradition, was hired on short notice to handle Lusty Song. A good many fans figured that the driver and horse had hardly had time to get acquainted...
...West 57th Street, in a peculiar atmosphere compounded of foreign accents, glue, bureaucracy and an enthusiasm not often found in government departments. Few men on the Voice staff are topnotch professionals; most work exceptionally hard, and have, on the whole, done a good job. Boss of the Voice is Foy D. Kohler, 42, an Ohioan and a veteran foreign service career man with years of duty which have given him a patient smile and a prematurely wrinkled face. Responsible for Voice policy is able ex-Newspaperman Edward Barrett, who as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs heads the whole...