Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ultimately the judges wee forced to choose one afternoon and one evening dress. "The neatest neck-line in years" won the former contest, while a costume entitled "Just right for a woodland nymph" copped the latter. The pajamas "to slip into after a swim," lost out primarily because nobody could figure out when they should be worn--although Vaughn had a knowing look...
...which is portable cover-out, it will likely be current bestsellers Life and Look--new faces since the days in the Teens when Literary Digest and Punch drew the tinkle of coin. Old-faces Crimson, Advocate, and Lampoon remain top attractions, although he confesses to selected clientele that the latter has fallen off considerably since the University's Golden Day. Education-admirer Felix, of course, does not admit to difference between the Harvard of today's Postwar and the Harvard of the Roaring Twenties. He has not looked for the trappings of opulence hut rather for the constant Knowledge. There...
When the Navy did buy Aramco oil during the latter part of the war, Moffett said, his onetime associates doubled the prices he had quoted President Roosevelt, "deliberately defrauded" the Government out of some $33,000,000. (The Navy promptly denied this, said it had paid less for Persian Gulf Oil than for oil from other sources...
...readers must grant Author White (The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Mas ham's Repose) a basic, whimsical conceit. This time the Archangel Michael slithers down the chimney of an Irish farm where Mr. White is boarding, warns of an imminent flood and appoints the author as a latter-day Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County Meath...
...variety of offerings, covering the whole scope of the year's Glee Club activities, which may range from sixteenth century motifs to modern pieces in the lighter vein. "Casey Jones," familiar American railroad ballad, and "Spanish Ladies," a rollicking arrangement of an English sea chantey, will highlight the latter category...