Word: garret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Painter Pablo Picasso's big Left Bank garret studio last week an impressive group of French intellectuals† met to hasten the overthrow of Dictator Francisco Franco...
...Members' speeches entirely out of his own head ? taking cars "that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." When a friend exclaimed that Prime Minister Pitt's latest speech was the best one that he had ever read, Johnson replied: "I wrote [it] in a garret in Exeter Street." Ten years before the birth of Noah Webster, Johnson went to work on his greatest project, his English dictionary...
...McCracken won 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 against Hyde; Schafer downed Orme Wilson, 6-2, 6-4; Olson took Cohn by 6-1, 6-4; Lin Burton lost to Penn's Peele by 6-3, 7-5; and Kissel was defeated by Garret, 6-4, 3-6, 10-8. The Crimson got its only points in the doubles, when Hyde and Dick Sorlien beat Tesman and Olson; 8-6, 6-3, while Jenkins and Ezell were defeating Peele and Lefkowith...
...such intrepidity Young Ames makes his firm a million dollars. His salary is raised from $75 to $150 a year and he continues to sleep in the garret. He does not really mind because he knows that some day he is going to own a share in the firm and marry old Mr. Chevalier's niece. Before he succeeds, readers have been given a lively picture of U.S. business and municipal mores at their most ruggedly individualistic-against a backdrop of clipper ships, teeming wharves, swells, belles, fire fighting, and the Five Points gang wars...
Another plan purposed last night was the establishment of a short wave receiving station at the headquarters of the organization in the garret at 31 Holyoke St., where members could take turns transcribing broadcasts from the Free French colonies...