Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hauteur was put on to conceal the violent, sudden spasms of pain that came from his malfunctioning stomach and bladder. Much was a disguise for his sensitivity and loneliness. The rest was a sort of game. He was proud of being a great gourmet-like his friend Lord Houghton. who died murmuring: "My exit is the result of too many entrees." He was a wit; once he greeted a quack doctor with "a very low bow" and the words: "I hope, sir, that you will live longer than your patients." He tempered the generosity of a prince with a biting...
Also included in the defendants are The New York World Telegram and Sun; its editor, Roy W. Howard; Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers of Schlesinger's book; Kenneth E. Tromley, author of "The Life and Times of a Happy Liberal;" and his publishers, Harper and Brothers...
...ARTHUR HOUGHTON Beverly Hills, Calif...
PARKINSON'S LAW, by C. Northcote Parkinson, Houghton Mifflin Co., 113 pp., $3.00. Illustrated...
Sullivan asserted that "Cambridge should enlist the services of Harvard and M.I.T. planners . . . they know Cambridge. They can be of tremendous help to us in planning the Cambridgeport and Houghton project areas...