Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College--will return for a few hours this Saturday. The 15-mile grind starts at Larz Anderson Bridge at 2:30 p.m. Anyone interested must register at the start to be eligible for the prize--a $120 French racing bike--and such other rewards as may accrue to the glorious victor upon his arrival at Wellesley...
...proper Republicans, and helped push through a bill setting up the Brooklyn Sports Center Authority. Governor Harriman, sometime 8-goal polo player, hustled down to Brooklyn, signed the measure at Borough Hall with the gallant announcement, "I am a Dodger fan." Walter sat back to savor the glorious future. The truth was that he was starting the longest fall downstairs in the history of American comedy...
Putty & Wax. Smeared with collodion, hung with plastic eye-bags, festooned with soup strainers, monocles, nippers, wax teeth, putty nebs, and anything else he could find in his makeup kit, Guinness gleefully paraded himself before the public in a glorious album of absurdities. He has been a larcenous bank clerk, a commuting bigamist, a middle-aged suffragette, a bootleg genius, a buck-toothed fiend, a garden editor who liked vegetables better than people, the contents of a cannibal stew, a family of eight, an intellectual...
Bonham Carter,* was on the stump at least three times a night drawing cheers with her assaults on "the muddled controls of the Labor Party and the uncontrolled muddle of the Tories" and harking back to the glorious days of Liberalism when her father, Lord Asquith, was Prime Minister (1908-16). Last week Bonham-Carter triumphantly topped the Tory candidate by a narrow 219 votes (with Labor a poor third) and became the new M.P. from Torrington. Mused a Devon farmer in corduroy breeches and leather leggings: "The Liberals may be no better'n no worse...
...America Wang wants a non-integrated society in which the different races would have "the maximum opportunity to develop their potentiality independently of one another." Still he maintains that there are no longer American Chinese of high enough caliber to teach their children about the "glorious traditions" of China. For the American Negro he recommends study of African rhythm and sculpture. To attain his ends he seeks "segregation in elementary and high school education and also in housing," but opposes it in sports, transportation and recreation facilities...