Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pusey, always careful in his screening of prospective teachers, has had only one near tumble. In 1949, he hired by mail a professor from Australia, Robert Peters, whose qualifications on paper were excellent. When the new term began, Roberts had not arrived. Pusey took over his course in ancient history, waiting anxiously for his new professor. After 4 weeks had passed without Peters, student speculation was rife: one story had Peters captured by Australian canibals, another had him washed overboard during his voyage to America. Jaime, Pusey's younger son, then 7, immediately named his imaginary friend "Peters...
Pusey, always careful in his screening of prospective teachers, has had only one near fumble. In 1949, he hired by mail a professor from Australia, Robert Peters, whose qualifications on paper were excellent. When the new term began, Roberts had not arrived. Pusey took over his course in ancient history, waiting anxiously for his new professor. After 4 weeks had passed without Peters, student speculation was rife: one story had Peters captured by Australian canibals, another had him washed overboard during his voyage to America. Jaime, Pusey's younger son, then 7, immediately named his imaginary friend "Peters...
...This year's novelty, the Congressional investigations, are but one, albeit the most gaudy manifestation of the scapegoat temper. You can call the Veldes and Jenners whatever you like: ambitious intolerants, "junketeering gumshoes," or violator of the spirit of due process of law. But the volume of their fan mail testifies to the faithfulness with which they represent and satisfy public opinion...
...days of the Truman Administration. The House Judiciary Subcommittee, headed by New York's Representative Kenneth B. Keating, wanted to ask McGranery some questions about an earlier day. The committee was trying to find out whether the Justice Department was "improperly induced" to drop a $185,000 million mail-fraud case against Kansas City Bond Dealer Roy E. Crummer in 1946. At tHat time, McGranery was an assistant attorney general under Tom C. Clark, now a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...along with a triple replacement (Robert Q. Lewis, Gary Moore and guest stars, e.g., Jackie Gleason) over the 13½ hours a week on CBS that Godfrey seemed to carry with ease. The hospital telephone operators have been flooded with calls from Godfrey fans, and three sacks of mail were waiting when he checked into the hospital...