Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BEATRICE AYER PATTON South Hamilton, Mass...
Repossession. In Springfield, Mass., when James Smith told the court that he could not pay a $50 traffic fine, Judge Ralph S. Spooner suggested that he raise the money by selling...
...Wednesday morning, nursing a few hangovers-but only a few-the veterans of Battery D pulled into Washington. With canes and Battery D armbands, they went peacefully off to Monsignor Tiernan's Mass at St. Matthew's Church, said in memory of 70-odd comrades who had died in France or since. Said one veteran: "In the old days we used to land somewhere, get in a fight first and then we'd go to Mass. We're getting...
...Though it took Cole years to satisfy his oh-such-a-hungry yearning for success on Broadway, getting there was not much more difficult than what a Porter lyric describes as "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings."* His comfortable itinerary included stops at Worcester (Mass.) Academy, where he got into trouble for writing off-color lyrics; Yale, where he got a B.A. and wrote the Eli football songs Bingo and Bulldog; Harvard, where he took the law dean's advice to switch to music; Paris, where he studied at the Schola Cantorum with Composer Vincent...
...Porters as "great, devoted friends." They live on the 41st floor of Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, and from time to time share the mirrored elegance of his California summer place in Brentwood (complete with a swimming pool that lights up at night), or her luxurious house in Williamstown, Mass. Servants are kept the year round at both places...