Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago Dr. Mont Follick, Labor member for Loughborough, interested his fellow M.P.s by demonstrating from the floor of the House a rotating toothbrush of his own invention. Last week Dr. Follick nearly won a victory for another invention, a system of simplified spelling...
Tory M.P. and Punch Editor Sir Alan (A. P.) Herbert wanted to know how Follick's phonetics would cope with the word water. "I think," said Herbert, "the Hon. Member for Loughborough proposes to spell it 'uoorter.' Some cockneys leave out the T and call it 'wa'er.' Americans say 'watter,' but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Glasgow's John Rankin volunteered: "We pronounce it whuskey...
...height of the celebration, 19-year-old Hale T. Gehl, a sophomore from Chicago, and a member of Theta Delta Chi, had a bad fall. While visiting at the Delta Phi house, he lost his balance on the stairs and plunged to the bottom. Two days later he died of a brain hemorrhage...
Sylvia, who also runs a talent agency and books theater parties in her spare time, charges $10 for ten months of club membership. For this, the member gets a chance to buy a pair of tickets, at the box-office price, to the club's monthly show selection, or an alternate. He also gets the club newspaper's breathless bulletins on forthcoming shows and, as an occasional "bonus," a chance to buy tickets at a discount to a preview...
Divorced. By Maxene Andrews Levy, 31, soprano member of the harmonizing Andrews Sisters: Music Publisher Lou Levy, 36, longtime manager of the trio who launched such Tin Pan Alley hits as Beat Me Daddy and Well All Right; after eight years of marriage, two children (adopted) ; in Long Beach, Calif...