Word: goodnight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After arguing all evening against Novelist Thomas Mann's and Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins' view that Chicago was a city of crime, stocky, curly-headed Lloyd Downs Lewis, Chicago Daily News sports editor, drama critic, historian (Chicago-The History of Its Reputation), bade Host Hutchins goodnight, departed. In the street Editor Lewis & wife met three robbers, surrendered $8 cash, a mink coat, $4,350 worth of jewelry. Returning to the house, he announced ruefully: "I take back everything...
...Miss Kay will not be regarded as stuffy and old-fashioned. "If I should go out with a fellow I have known well for quite a long time, and whom I know to be respected by everyone, I see no harm in his kissing me goodnight. I would still respect him just as much as ever...