Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the dock, Frank sighed: "I had to get this off my chest. I'll sleep better for it." Then the man who thought that Poles were good enough for mincemeat returned to his Bible, and to his cherished picture of St. Florian, an officer of the Roman occupation force along the Danube, who was martyred in A.D. 304, and who became a patron saint of Poland...
...searchers, McGill also urged that students with suggestions or ideas on alleviating the Problem contact him at his room, in Lowell House P-22. "I'll welcome them with an open parking meter," he said...
...seconds from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Beer supplies were soon exhausted: sales were estimated at 10,000 glasses in a day. Because many a farmer had left his meat ration coupons home, grocers had a field day. Said one: "I sold more bananas and sardines than I'll ever sell again one day if I stay in business 100 years...
...zips through her daily grist with a sharp eye out for the "angle" that will cue a sermonette. Every afternoon her chauffeur drives her through Audubon Park and back to the swank Prytania Street apartment. Her stock wisecrack, when showing guests her fine Louis XIV bed: "I'll bet I'm the only respectable woman who ever slept...
...they cost a pretty penny. Boston's swank C. Crawford Hollidge, Ltd. did a rush business on ostrich-plumed jobs at $65. Chicago's Bes-Ben sold all the floppy, fancy tuscan straws it could turn out at $52.75 and up. "Mmmm, but you'll look delicious," burbled Manhattan's Arnold Constable over a "high-crown cartwheel . . . with pastel blooms encased in spun, sugary net," all for $45. Macy's offered an open-crowned straw loaded with daisies...