Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Annabel Hubbard Phelps, 74, wife of Yale's Professor-Emeritus William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps; of apoplexy; in New Haven. Full of fire, fun and hospitality, Mrs. Phelps was almost as famed in Yale's social life as her husband. An experienced housewife, she always kept ten chickens in the icebox...
These schools open their doors to adult refugees for fun and work by night, to children by day. A newly formed Progressive Schools' Committee for Refugee Children, representing some 20 Eastern schools, has found institutions so eager to enroll such children that there are not enough refugees to go around. Reason for their eagerness: presence of refugees in a school is more educational to the other children than books or newspapers...
...mother." Next year she married Ronald Gay, onetime automobile mechanic, lived with him a few months, sued him for divorce. Recently she has been living at El Cortez, swank San Francisco apartment hotel, under the name of Mrs. Howell. Last fall she bleached her hair platinum, left for fun in Miami, returned fortnight ago for her final decree from Mechanic Gay. When she got it, she promptly married Mr. Bradstreet, a onetime bartender, took him honeymooning in her yellow Packard...
...triangle of which Francis Lederer is about sixty degrees and Don Ameche thirty. The odd part is that Miss Colbert, as a penniless American dancer, passes up Mr. Lederer for two rows of white teeth and one of those tiny apartments you read about. But she has so much fun coming to her decision that "Midnight" offers thorough screen entertainment...
...notes conform rather strictly to type. Each starts with an explanation of the game, although one, signed "Box 1300 (lucky, I hope!)" maintained that the writer was a Sophomore., just doing it for fun...