Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lackey rushed, muttering, to Reuben's, an all-night restaurant which for reasons best known to its management, keeps such an example of the toy stuffer's art on sale. He bought two large specimens for $25 apiece. Bogart welcomed them jovially, handed one to Manhattan Wholesale Grocer Bill Seeman, his drinking companion, and with the other under his arm, departed for the much more elegant El Morocco. All in all, it was a small thing. A nothing. It was not as though he had settled down amid El Morocco's zebra-striped decor with a live...
...best finisher was chunky, bay Hill Prince, beaten only once-and that time by what his rider, Jockey Eddie Arcaro, confessed was "a damn bad ride." At Saratoga in August, a colt named Middle-ground outran everything in sight, and in the Midwest a streak of bay lightning known as Curtice was winning again & again. According to custom, the three of them should have had it out last week in the Belmont Futurity, the race that decides the juvenile championship...
Slogan for the movement, headed by Dr. Elmer G. Homrighausen of Princeton Theological Seminary, is "America for Christ." Combined with the Roman Catholic Holy Year, it may make 1950 the most religion-conscious twelvemonth the modern world has yet known...
...longest-term resident was Professor George Herbert Palmer, whence the second half of the building's name. Palmer, a well-known classical scholar who claimed genially that he "existed on the decay of Greece," lived there from 1894 until 1933. On his initiative, the astronomer's "caboose" was finally taken off the roof and some of the interior remodelled. Dean Gummere used the building for a few years before the war, and after Pearl Harbor, when the Navy moved into President Conant's house, President Conant moved into the Dana Palmer house. He moved out just before it migrated across...
...team even boasts a coach, Dick Shaughnessey, known to some as the Izaak Walton of skeet shooting. Under Shaughnessey last spring, the team shot its way to a second in the National Telegraphic Intercollegiates...