Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remaining four claim that when they reached Philadelphia yesterday morning, they called a friend and had him send a wire to Dribben: "Clearing Philadelphia. Only one flat tire. The Boys." They said they did not have enough money to send the wire themselves. The friend sent it collect...
...pretty "Toodie" Simpson, the bachelor met his match. Ever since her schooldays (at Virginia's fashionable, horsy Foxcroft), according to one of her friends, Toodie "had only one concern-to get married." She wore huge gold earrings in a gypsy style and had frizzy black hair. The effect, said her friend, was rather too exotic for an 18-year-old and somehow she "scared the boys away." Nevertheless, in 1946 Toodie married William Simpson, the son of a Chicago millionaire. Last year they were divorced. Now a sleek, mature 26 who "can afford a suit or two from Schiaparelli...
...Dear Friend and Gentle Hearts." With these last scribbled words of Stephen Foster* as a salutation, Fulton Oursler, onetime professional magician, veteran magazine editor and top writer of mysteries and a bestselling religious book (The Greatest Story Ever Told), last week began a syndicated column which big city newspapers were playing like an important story. The point of Oursler's first weekly column was that the Christian spirit has temporal rewards...
...since it stood on the only hill in the Yard, the building was picked to be the University's first observatory. A skeptical classics professor reported to a friend that "there is a caboose set upon the roof with a telescope that commands an unobstructed view of all the chambers in the neighborhood." Not all the views were unobstructed, however. A local farmer moved a barn onto his place just south of Massachusetts Avenue, neatly eclipsing the top of Blue Hill, which the observatory was using for a transit sight. The University finally had to buy a right...
Carless escorts of Wellesley women have found a friend--at a price...