Word: homed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realize a tidy profit in copra . . . and in a short time he had the island producing . . . But he quickly found that rats on Tetiaroa were determined to thwart this commercial enterprise . . . He advertised in Papeete for cats . . . and soon streams of Tahitian lads were trotting to his office and home with yowling cats in bags, crates and nets...
...educated men feel that their Harvard diplomas qualify them as expert football critics. Consequently they come with a flask on Saturday afternoons and spend two hours impressing their wives by second-guessing the quarterback. Then they go to a cocktail party and slander the coach. Then they go home and sleep it off. And that...
Originally called "Cabalgata," the revue played in Spain for seven years before coming to New York last season. Such a long run at home suggests that the dancing is authentic and good. But none of the troupe ever come up to the fiery Mexican standard set by Carmen Amaya and her numerous brothers, sisters, and cousins. It's not that her dancing is any more exciting than the Spanish variety, but just that there are no dancers with the "Cabalgata" company who make you leap out of your seat and shout...
Dean William C. DeVane of Yale College said last night the trio had been suspended over the weekend and the two who live near New Haven sent home. He sent letters to the students' parents explaining the action, which goes on their records, he said...
...Time for Advice. Her pictures of the private life of the Roosevelts are among the best in the area of "things nobody else can know." Every morning when she was home, Mrs. Roosevelt called on the President in his room after breakfast ; if he was too busy reading the newspapers she left without disturbing...