Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sensitive Plant. In Kalispell, Mont., Mrs. Delia M. McKinley, suing for divorce, complained that Mr. McKinley had 1) pulled up all her lilac bushes, 2) torn up her pansy bed, 3) staked a calf in her strawberry patch, 4) mowed the lawn "just to annoy...
Alben Barkley saw Harry Truman off at the station. "Mow 'em down, Harry," Alben advised. "I'm going to fight hard. I'm going to give them hell," promised the President. "You ought not to say 'hell,' " daughter Margaret admonished her father. Senator Barkley suggested: "It is going to be a victorious trip." Said Harry Truman briskly: "Yes, sir. It is going...
...exhaust was enough to halt work in every office, to start a flurry of telephone calls to our office to inquire if the Boss were all right." Ike was not allowed to stick his nose outside the compound. Finally he did, grumbling, "Hell's fire, I'm, going out for a walk. If anyone wants to shoot me, he can go right ahead...
Here's something that's universal. One-hundred percent of you will have ice cream for dessert about eleven times a week. It's because a rich alumnus established a fund for buying ice cream once upon a time. (This really happened, I'm told). At any rate, it's usually deliciously flavorsome and creamy rich...
...While I'm on the subject of Radcliffe, here's a note for the Radcliffe freshmen. Sixty percent of you will be taken out by Harvard men and like it. Thirty percent will be taken out by Harvard men and won't like it. That leaves ten percent, and nothing can be done about...