Word: midseason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt said nothing more on the subject. She had lots of other things to do and talk about: at 62 she was still in midseason form. During the week, besides sitting as a delegate to the U.N. General Assembly, she became a grandmother for the 15th and 16th times, when Son John's wife Anne and Son James's wife Romelle had babies a day apart (see MILESTONES). Then the Advertising Research Foundation reported that she is the columnist with most reader appeal to U.S. women. My Day, according to the survey, is read by 37% of women...
With Dick Harlow's aggregation finally at midseason trim and with its first real test before them, head cheerleader and master of ceremonies Gerald S. Spar '48 looks forward to the biggest gown turnout the town has seen in many a year...
...says of Jeeves's cuckoo-pated employer, Berty Wooster: "If there is one quality that distinguishes him, it is his ability to keep the lip stiff and upper and make the best of things. Though crushed to earth, as the expression is, he rises again-not absolutely in midseason form, perhaps, but perkier than you would expect and with an eye alert for silver linings...
...comeback, Author Wodehouse (now living in Paris) is not absolutely in midseason form, but perky as ever. Joy in the Morning is a chatty potboiler in the tradition of most Wodehouse works. Its setting is the familiar English hamlet of Steeple Bumpleigh; its characters include such Wodehouse fixtures as crocodile-toothed Lord Worplesdon ("he had got that way through presiding at board meetings"), twelve-year-old Hon. Edwin Worplesdon (a Boy Scout "who makes you feel that what this country wants is somebody like King Herod"), "Boko" Fittleworth ("a cross between a comedy juggler and a parrot that has been...
Intramural baseball hit midseason this week with Dudley's unbeaten Commuters leading the league and Leverett's Bunnies a slim half game off the pace. These clubs will clash Wednesday on the Freshman diamond for league supremacy, when fireballer Bob Curley is slated to take the mound for Dudley to oppose the deceptive slow curves of Bunny Bill Johnson...