Word: hangouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dinah, wary of celebrity hunters, declares: "They'll never turn me into a glamor girl." She prefers the armed forces, likes to pass the soldiers' hangout near the Vine Street Brown Derby, greeting soldiers (especially privates) with: "Hi ya, soldier! My name's Dinah. What's yours?" "Once I get them and they get me," she says, "we have a wonderful time." She has stopped her car to sing her head off to a one-man sentry in the desert...
This is the team that's been in the making for the past four years, since Coach Carl Voyles first came to the Indians' hangout. Fifteen lettermen and a satisfying number of juniors and sophomores have given Voyles an experienced, tough team, that averages 190 lbs. And it boasts two real stars in Stud Johnson at fullback and Garry Ramsey at guard...
Dominating the southern end of the quadrangle is massive Widener Library, third largest in the United States. Facing it at the north end is the Memorial Church, built in remembrance of Harvard's dead in the World War. In the southwest corner stands Lehman Hall, hangout of the University bill collectors...
Thereupon Senator Barkley proceeded to announce that the Department of Justice had completely exonerated Senator Walsh of the Post's charges that he frequented a Brooklyn "house of degradation" which was also a hangout for Nazi spies, a place where sailors were lured by drink to tell military secrets. Senator Barkley did not then or later give out the FBI 25-page report. He said it was too "disgusting and unprintable." He contented himself with declaring flatly that the whole "weird and fantastic story" was a case of mistaken identity: the man called Senator Walsh by the Post...
...Hangout for Broadway's anonymous, footsore young actors is the vast, bare-tabled, coffee-smelling basement of Walgreen's drugstore in Times Square. Into this "poor man's Sardi's," every noon, swarm the occupants of a thousand hall bedrooms, to eat and table-hop, jam the phone booths, swap hard-luck stories, pick up casting tips. Lately they have also been coming to buy a nickel's worth of reading matter...