Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayfield swung back, and last week her reply was the talk of Denver: "I suspect your difficulty is that you haven't had the chance of meeting the kind of people who do speak well. . . . For, coming to Denver as you obviously have, with a prejudice against people here, you are not likely to be welcomed with open arms. It's such a shame you had to come here at all. Perhaps your husband can discover oil on Broadway or Park Avenue and you can go back...
...dentist strapped Sidney Joseph Perelman into the chair with six towels and forced his jaws apart with a blunt instrument. "Now then, where are his X rays?" he asked the nurse. "We haven't any," she said. "This is the first time he's been here." "Well, bring me any X rays," barked the dentist; "when you've seen one tooth you've seen them...
...dress and nervousness walked into a massive grey building on Manhattan's noisy Seventh Avenue. They came singly and in pairs, in tow of wives, sweethearts, mothers, fathers. On the ninth floor they found a friendly receptionist who took them in hand, ushered them into a pastel green haven with a fascinating array of gleaming gadgets and tweedy psychiatrists. The psychiatrists worked swiftly and efficiently. By nightfall 180 troubled veterans had spilled their principal worries, trooped out. Scrawled on the wall outside was an eloquent parting shot: "Kilroy was here...
...Rock Island, New Haven, Frisco, St. Louis Southwestern and Missouri Pacific...
...kids have been directing street traffic, two or three to a kiosk, with more safety and celerity than anyone remembered. Today the workers' unions took over so the kids could go home and get some sleep. The university students, who operate in spontaneous, well-disciplined cadres of ten, haven't had much sleep either. There were over 1,300 of them (many are now dead), and they still hold themselves responsible for law and order...