Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comatose little cotton town on U.S. Highway 81, half an hour's drive from the Texas border. But a fortnight ago, Comanche's undertaker, a chubby, balding go-getter named Glen Boydstun, decided to put the town on the map. His inspiration: a news item announcing that droop-eyed Bill Cook, cold-blooded killer of six, was to be executed (TIME, Dec. 22) in the gas chamber at California's San Quentin prison...
...which would appear to throw an invidious light upon the clamor across the street at Harvard. Can't the boys take it? Or is this merely a new item to add to the data in the old debate about the weaker sex? --The Boston GLOBE...
...late William Randolph Hearst is going under the auctioneer's hammer. The latest group, some 300 pieces of old arms and armor, sold in Manhattan last week for a total of $40,810. The sale included a 16th century burgonet (helmet with cheek-pieces), the highest priced item, which went to a private collector for $3,200, and a 1560 wheel-lock Italian arquebus which the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought...
...present candy often proved more alluring than the future carrot. The gardener sometimes had to pursue the local roughs who were found sneaking along the back fence for one reason or another. Time & again a girl would sneak out before daylight with the petty cash or any other item she could lay hands on. Dickens became a well-known figure in the magistrate's court. Although few statistics remain, it appears that between 1847 and 1853, the home cared for 56 women, ten of whom were expelled for incorrigible misconduct and seven of whom ran away. Of those...
Blithe Spirit is almost as much of a repertory item as Arsenic and Old Lace, so nothing need be said about it. This production is no better, but certainly no worse than any amateur effort is liable to be. The scenery is unobtrusive, and although the lighting is the same for night and day, the general stage impression is a pleasant...