Word: harem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spaatz's strong feeling for the family relationship in his official life is a reflection of his happy and notably informal family life at home. He is devoted as only an inarticulate, hard-shelled Pennsylvania Dutchman could be to his spritely family of women, fondly known as the "harem." Tooey may be tough on the troops, but with his three daughters he is "weak in the head"-this from no less an authority than his wife, dark-haired, good-looking Ruth Harrison Spaatz...
Thursday. Principal Herbert W. Smith of Chicago's Francis W. Parker School (375 children, all ages) pooh-poohed the Post Office, testified he had found such words as "whore" in Shakespeare, "sono-va-bitch" in the Chicago Tribune. He looked at an Esquire cartoon in which a harem beauty with a "Happy Birthday" tag on her ankle approaches two Yanks in the desert. Says one Yank to the other...
Lecuona is a bachelor but a Latin. Asked last week what he saw in the U.S. that he would like to take home, he replied pensively: "I'd like to collect American women-they are the most beautiful in the world-I'd like to make a harem of them...
...oldtime motto, "Spend it while you've got it and don't cry when it's gone," and the hell-roaring characters who lived up to the motto. Among them: Larry Mullins, a mine shoveler, who inherited $3,500 and spent it by installing a public harem in a hotel suite where he played host for a riotous three days...
Headaches v. Technique. Incredulous newspapermen, on whom the Sinatra voice has little effect, canvassed his harem to discover what Sinatra did to them. Some of their answers...