Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luncheon club that exists for the purpose of giving slapstick initiations once a month to current celebrities and notorieties. At Hepburn's initiation he shook hands with former Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey, who wore a mask of Franklin Roosevelt...
Philadelphia had fallen, Independence Hall and all. Industrial New England had been captured; Rhode Island with its naval base at Newport was isolated, though not invaded; the industrial areas of New Jersey and Pennsylvania were cut off from each other and threatened by a new enemy advance. New York and Boston were besieged. Columns were poised along the upper Potomac, threatening Washington. It looked as if the enemy might reach the Mississippi before winter...
...giddy mix-up of telephone and radio communications in Jersey City turned station WAAT into a vast party line...
First conversation, an obbligato to a program of Bing Crosby records, was between two Jersey City men-about-town, who dwelt on the previous night's amours. Said one: "So everything was all right, eh?" Said the other...
...that day, he joined his dinner hosts in a glowing mood. Before the evening was over, Leon's cup of sentiment was overflowing. For the dinner celebrated the 100th anniver sary of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. of Trenton. And Leon (born in Millville) is a Jersey...