Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carville has had excellent results with three sulfa drugs: Promin, Diasone and Promizole (streptomycin, now under test, also looks promising). Last year the leprosarium discharged 37 patients, this year it will discharge 40 or more. Said its medical chief, Dr. Guy H. Faget: "The sulfones have stopped even the most hopeless cases in their tracks...
...small, brassy-voiced Royal Brougham the bronze plaque which usually goes to the city's biggest industrialists, philanthropists, and men-about-culture. Brougham had fought long, loudly and effectively for bigger & better playgrounds as "living memorials" to the dead of World War II, "instead of statues of some guy sitting on an iron horse." His wartime promotions had raised $250,000 for servicemen's recreation...
Cinema Hard Guy George Raft, who had been getting the full treatment from Columnist Westbrook Pegler (who disapproved of Raft's associates and felt that Raft was just about as black as the movies painted him), suddenly had a little trouble with a 50-year-old attorney named Edward Raiden. Back before Christmas of last year, charged Raiden, he had been sent to Raft by 19-year-old Betty Doss to recover some finery which Raft had given her and then yanked back. While one of Raft's friends held him, the attorney complained, Raft gave...
...round reporter and tamperer with the language. His Broadwayese delighted Britons as well as Americans; and grammarians were alarmed by the numbers who preferred Runyon's English to the King's. Webster never told them that a G was $1,000, a wrong gee a no-good guy, a glaum a good look...
...summary: Hugh Foster (H) defeated Harding (E), 3-2, Bill Boericke (H) defeated Buttrick (E), 3-1, Ralph Earle (H) defeated Klenig (E), 3-0, Henry Cabot (H) defeated Decough (E), 3-0, Guy McLeod (H) defeated Grant...