Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increased, and the system was broadened to make anyone who had ever served in the legislature eligible for a pension based on his highest salary in public office. No. 1 beneficiary: Democrat James M. Curley, now 77, former governor, former mayor of Boston, and ex-convict (five months for mail fraud). Curley, who served in the state legislature in 1902-03, is eligible for a $1,000-monthly pension under the new law. ¶Retroactive payments, amounting to thousands of dollars, will go to statehouse employees, some earning as much as $13,000 a year, for carfare and lunches...
...sketch of a girl's head. Generous but cautious Henri Matisse had written: "I am sending you . . . the object you desire, with the hope that it will please you. But I pray you not to encourage any of your friends to make a similar request of me." His mail-order job for Clem Caditz. said Painter Matisse, was "completely exceptional...
...high officials. Kavoussi once worked for the. London Daily Express, has a sound knowledge of English. Other part-time correspondents in the Middle East are Riza Chandir in Istanbul, who operates his own Turkish news agency; Abu Said el Riche in Beirut, onetime correspondent for the London Daily Mail; Ernest Main on Cyprus and Monica Dehn in Israel. In addition to these, a wide network of observers maintains a flow of suggested stories to the Beirut headquarters...
...Koran before sitting down to breakfast (yoghurt, one tomato, brown bread) and the morning papers. By 8 he is in his office-where King Farouk's picture has been ostentatiously turned to the wall-drafting DROs (Daily Routine Orders), interviewing local commanders, dictating replies to his morning mail (1,000 letters daily). Most of the letters he answers with a picture postcard of his troops or himself with the message: "Our movement succeeded because it was in your name and at your wish . . . [It] is from...
...sight. She told reporters that she couldn't remember whether she was married or not, but that she did have five children-"three of them colored." She wore a baggy sweater and patched blue dungaree pants (now a national fad but in 1932 a scandal), and read her mail sitting on the curb outside the studio...