Word: man
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Havana, with the attractions of Sloppy Joe's cuba libres and bacardis, and with a dance thrown for the Unit at the Biltmore Yacht Club, was the most popular stop on route. Every man had guest privileges at the Havana clubs, through special dispensation of the U. S. Ambassador...
...Every man had a station on a gun crew or in the gun director, working on ballistics. They received actual experience in anti-aircraft firing, star shell firing, blackouts, and searchlight drills, as well as in the ordinary mechanics of firing...
...comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman entitled "The Man Who Came to Dinner" opened its two weeks engagement at the Plymouth last evening; the title sounds laborious, but the humor is uproarious, and the entertainment glorious. In short, the boys who wrote "You Can't Take It With You" have not lost their touch...
...that is the reason"--this with an unusual amount of energy--"why I say there is no Harvard Man." The Vagabond whipped out the last two words with capitals, putting them in vocal italics. He was warming to his subject now, growing the warmer as the circle around him grew the larger. Pleased and flattered, he, the center of attention for once. These newcomers. He knew a few things which they did not. And they seemed willing to listen...
...Princeton Man, yes. You could hardly miss him. Tweeds and a good pipe and that sort of thing. He's handsome in an orthodox manner-- looks a bit like a collegiate clothes-model in Esquire. Fresh, the lady novelists would call him. He likes week-ends and New York, gets sentimental over the Tiger and a glass of beer...