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Word: intendent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which come to my attention are of the Adams House dance next Monday, which is to be graced by the presence of Count Basie and some fifteen associated Kansas City virtuosi. The gentlemen of the dance committee are charging a pretty stiff admission fee, particularly for stags. Evidently they intend to discourage jazz lovers who may wish to slip in just to hear the Basie musicale without engaging in any female entanglements, as well as the avowed wolves who inevitably infest such soirees. The Count may no longer be the wild and woolly nobleman he was in the days when...

Author: By Harry Munroe, | Title: SWING | 5/16/1941 | See Source »

This is the students' first real chance to demonstrate just how sincerely they intend to practice what they preach. The cause is worthy; the need is great. The occasion is at hand, and let Harvard rise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Help From Harvard | 5/13/1941 | See Source »

Will the following members of the French Club please check their names below if they intend to come to the dance and if they want blind dates. The price for members is $1.00; for non-members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/25/1941 | See Source »

...Bisbee, Ariz., Officer A. S. Orton caught a small boy making off with assorted loot from a store. "Just what," asked he, "did you intend to do with this brassiere?" Said the boy: "Make a blindfold for my burro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Nazi Police Chief Heinrich Himmler forbade any dancing anywhere, as is usual when the Nazi armies march. Despite blasting visits from the R.A.F., Germany was a quiet nation among the painful clamors that filled most of Europe. The German populace is a rigidly disciplined civilian army and its officers intend to keep it so until their country's final triumph is assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: All Quiet on the Home Front | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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