Word: mums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make-up on their faces and held their elbows at right angles, managed to look quite Egyptian; their story involved a princess who had to choose between three suitors. One offered riches, another royal ancestry, and the last love--according to the twenty-five-cent libretto, which kept mum on her final choice. As a matter of fact, the outcome is still in doubt. The suitors could be distinguished only by their green, red, and blue cummerbunds, of which the princess chose the red; at this point, there was much cheering. I asked one of the applauds, an elderly alumna...
...industry rumor was that RCA had developed a new-type color camera, or maybe it was a new tube. RCA executives kept mum, would only explain vaguely that, because of the pending court decision, "we just don't want to be active publicly at this time...
While Oosterbaan was building up the opposition and tearing down his own team, California Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf was keeping mum and concentrating on football fundamentals. Waldorf put his pre-game program in two words, "Hard work." His veteran squad, unbeaten for the season, had a special incentive for hard work: the rankling memory of four consecutive Rose Bowl lickings for the West Coast at the hands of the Big Ten, including California's own 17-14 defeat by Ohio State on New Year...
...Brown Athletic Council met tonight to consider a renewal of Zitrides' contract and emerged from its meeting completely mum...
...forgotten his working-class origins. Londoners like best his stock characters, such as cockneys, hard-boiled moppets (one proudly reported that he had not only spotted spring's first cuckoo, but shot it with his air rifle) and the Giles "family." This includes beefy, solid Dad and Mum, a scrawny pig-tailed schoolgirl, two older homely sisters, a horrid, runty little boy and stumpy, grumpy Grandma who smells of camphorated oil and dotes on "bulls' eyes" (a peppermint candy...