Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly wait for those new models. I haven't really stopped laughing at the current ones...
...know is strong." One of her daughters once asked: "Mother, do you think these things are really quite suitable?" Producer Murray thinks so. Says he: "When women see Kathryn on a trapeze, they visualize themselves on a trapeze." Says Kathryn, "I hear I get a salary, but I haven't seen it." Arthur gives it as $1,500 weekly and says that he deposits it in their joint bank account...
...followed by graduate study at Yale, marriage to a Yale historian, and finally a job at Bryn Mawr. She had an alarming habit of mislaying spectacles, important documents and salary checks, and a curiously housewifely approach to research ("I always put different topics on different colored pages. If I haven't a pink paper, I take a white paper and write 'PINK' on the top"). As a teacher she inspired a generation of girls with a love of history, as a scholar added considerably to what is known as the story of the British Empire...
...ridiculous. The favorite pastime of the American people is dirty jokes. The American people are more preoccupied with sex and more frightened of it than any others. We're just an obscene people." How does Wylie himself react to the national pastime? Yawned the savant of scatology: "I haven't heard a new dirty joke since I was twelve...
...manager doesn't have confidence in his ballplayers, even when they're going badly, they're not going to have confidence in themselves. And when a ballplayer's confidence is gone, you haven't got a ballplayer-I don't give a damn how great he is. That's why I try never to lose confidence in the best or the least of my players. The rest of it, a ballplayer has to do for himself. He takes the bat up to the plate. He fields the ball. He throws the ball...