Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Journalist Lincoln Steffens, now converted from an ugly relic into a gleaming legacy of the gingerbread era. He has given up golf and handball. He reads extensively on contemporary problems, dips regularly into his Bible before going to bed and first thing in the morning. His hobby and main relaxation is his lively family. Between fishing trips with his sons, horseback riding with his daughters, near-monthly birthday parties for one Warren or another, he has time for few friends, fewer intimates...
...Years. When he was three years old, his father went on strike, lost his job and moved to Bakersfield, where he became a chief inspector of shops in the Southern Pacific yards. Young Earl was brought up in a tough, frontier atmosphere, was riding his pet burro down the main street of Bakersfield on the day an outlaw shot & killed Deputy Sheriff William E. Tibbett, father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. He earned pocket money as a newsboy, later as a cub reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. In high school he spent summers as a call-boy waking up railroaders...
...main ballroom was jammed with football enthusiasts for the Gridiron Club's annual dinner. Harlow was seated at the head table three places away from his successor, Art Valpey. He looked tired and now and then he smiled a little weakly. While other diners wolfed down huge planks of roast beef and mountainous ice cream and fruit concoctions, he rolled a boiled potato around his plate as though it was something less than a loose ball and made uninspired passes at some specially prepared orange juice he had brought with him from Maryland...
Harlow received an inscribed gift acknowledging his "Inspiring leadership and high ideals of sportsmanship." Then he addressed the throng of football coaches, sportwriters, athletes, and their guests, overflowing the hotel's main ballroom...
Sociability appeared as the main influence in making choices, with more than a third of the 222 students explaining their preferences by the number of friends they expect to find in the House. Location proved a major factor in exactly half of the decisions, with other reasons based on food, athletics, facilities, and as one Freshman explained, "bathtubs...