Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exile, Playboy Farouk last week gave a royal brushoff to a bill collector who wanted to collect on a $5,000 underwear bill, and drove off to Monte Carlo in a station wagon with his latest collector's item, brunette Irma Capece Minutolo, aged...
Most fantastic item: a collection of letters (among the correspondents: Plato, Socrates, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne) for which an incredibly gullible French scientist had paid 150,000 gold francs ($30,000) in the 18605 to a forger named Vrain-Lucas. One of the letters, written in French on old parchment, was from Lazarus to Jesus in thanks for having been raised from the dead. Barely discernible were the words: "See you in Rome, dear Lord...
...were especially eventful. A controversial parody of Esquire brought University wrath, and the building was padlocked for a short time. Cambridge police found the most objectionable item a drawing of a voluptuous nude entitled "What the Bride Will Wear." And the depression also brought financial difficulties, to the delight of CRIMSON editors, who twice plastered "For Sale" signs on the Lampoon door...
...entertaining official guests and guiding the Schools Committee, the Key has done its job satisfactorily. But in the past several years, the Spring dance has expanded into a weekend, and its management has grown from a minor item on the Key's yearly agenda to what sometimes appears to be the organization's primary function. Though the Key has grown in these directions, it has badly neglected its services for the H.A.A...
...Premier had simply let it be known that localities must vote his list or none at all. Item: a constituency near Kerman beat up the man Zahedi sent there to be elected; Zahedi suspended its balloting. Item: a former Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. announced himself as the pro-Mossadegh candidate from Kashan; Zahedi forced him to remain in Teheran. Item: the powerful Zolfaghari tribe in the northwest rigged the election of two pro-Mossadegh deputies; Zahedi rushed in four tanks and arrested the chiefs for using "undue force" on the voters. Moral: nobody in Iran save Fazlollah Zahedi...