Word: missing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...testified that he thought the Miss Murphy's bag contained drugs...
...Walter doesn't miss a wake or a funeral. His family has been around for a long time, and when he walks into the funeral home, it is as though he has bestowed an honor to the person in the casket," says Koocher. "If anyone else did it, people would think it was really cheap. But when Walter comes, it is a heightened respect...
...miss playing receiver," Heberle said, "but they left the choice...
Some Club members were obsessed with "manly" behavior. They cajoled candidates into guzzling "Owl Juice," which tasted like a martini, from an ornate pitcher. When I told a Club member that I might miss an event to keep a date with my long-distance girlfriend, he warned that the Club would frown upon an "unmanly excuse." Later I listened to two members brag about their liasons with various women...
...pulp literature and vaudeville. When he became a cartoonist and writer at Brown University, the melodramatic phrase coupled with the antic gesture were indispensable parts of his technique. Another campus satirist derived from the same origins: Nathan Weinstein, soon to be better known as Nathanael West, the author of Miss Lonelyhearts. The two men were close friends, then relatives when Perelman married West's sister Laura. It was not, Herrmann reports, a conventional union. Early on, the Perelmans went to Hollywood, where a fellow scenarist, Dashiell Hammett, once noted, "Last night I ran into Sid . . . and wound up by doing...