Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though not claiming to have got everything right, I have historical justification for my guesses as well as my facts: for example, the marriage-night fiasco can be deduced positively from a variety of lesser sources and negatively from the ideal account of Adam and Eve's honeymoon in Paradise Lost...
Civic Pride. Peoria's 83-year-old Mayor Ed Woodruff was locally noted for taking pride in the town's "liberal" outlook. When a reform candidate-Carl O. Triebel, owner of the Ideal Troy Laundry-filed against him this year for the Republican nomination, old Ed Woodruff did not change his attitude: "Peoria likes to live and doesn't want to be told what to do and what not to do all the time...
...response is tremendous. Servicemen shower her with grass skirts and invasion money; they cable money for yellow roses; they write that she is "romantic and groovey" and "my ideal." One fan, irresistibly reminded of his wife, requested that Jill simply say: "The mashed potatoes are ready...
...short: it is a well-known fact that the moon revolves in such a way that it always turns the same face to the earth. The other side of it will always be inaccessible to rocket fire from the earth. Thus it forms an ideal site for supplies, factories, munitions works, etc. Well placed emplacements on this side of the moon, on the other hand, could command every part of the earth as if it were a chicken turning on a spit, simply waiting for New York or Moscow to come within range.... A sketch is enclosed...
...Covered with hollow honors. Texas Rangers, Kentucky Colonels, Boston fire chiefs. . . . Why, I've met Rangers who couldn't get on a horse with a blueprint and two osteopaths." Actresses? "Chambermaids with caps on their teeth ... figments of their pressagents' imaginations." California? "If you're an orange, it's ideal...