Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been sulking ever since, and his recent espousal of the States' Rights party is probably as much a fit of pique at Kefauver and Democratic regulars as a wily effort to repair his fading fortunes. In view of these unusual factors, what will happen in Tennessee is anybody's guess, but Republican hopes there are as high as an elephant's eye, even if it has taken the peculiar charms of Roy Acuff to achieve them...
...from a sackful of $20 bills in his office. Often, he bet a restless customer $100 to $1 that he would deliver on a certain date, temporarily appeased the depositor by paying off the bet on due day. How did Bob hope to keep his bubble from bursting? Best guess was that he hoped to use his huge amount of cash to turn some super deal in land or oil speculation, pay off everybody, including...
...starting to run around with married women when he was only 14, was 19 now and getting a new view of home-wrecking. After 18 months of marriage, his wife went home to mother (she still thinks he is a "swell guy"). Sonny Boy considered the situation: "I guess I haven't been as good a husband as I should...
...autographed pictures of his friends Winston Churchill and Admiral Nimitz, a letter from President Roosevelt thanking Freeman for suggesting the term "liberation" instead of the "invasion" of Europe, and a Helen Hokinson New Yorker cartoon in which a bewildered matron returns two fat volumes to her bookshop, saying: "I guess I bit off more 'Robert E. Lee' than I could chew...
Here at the University, the 40 students are expected to pause during the evening and jot down on a penny postcard their guess as to the arrangement of the symbols being used that night. The postcard in mailed off to Duke the next...