Word: needier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Manuel Quezon, first President of the Philippines, she had long led a quiet, austere life devoted to charities and the rearing of her family. When the President died, she turned down the pension awarded her by the government, so that the money might be used for needier war widows and orphans. Even the Communist-led Hukbalahaps, who spread terror through the hills of Central Luzon, could find no word to say against Doña Aurora...
Most raucous needier was a zoot-suited, jobless young Puerto Rican named Fred Boysen, who had somehow wangled a $2.50 box seat. Boysen's view, as he expressed it later, is that "the fun of baseball" is kibitzing; a big-league manager should be able to take it. He dished it out. He spat in Durocher's direction and said: "Here, Leo, this is for you." As five hapless Giant pitchers were mauled, he cried at the Giant boss: "Why don't you go in and pitch yourself, you monkey?" Leo also said he heard Fan Boysen...
...Books & Girls. As a youth, Jan Masaryk was a bright but inattentive student. He was good at cards, but he usually passed on the money he won to needier friends. At 20 (1906) he left Charles University and came to the U.S. where he spent seven years. He worked in an iron foundry, played the piano in a nickelodeon, managed an iron works. The seven U.S. years he summed up: "I set out to become a captain of industry but that was a great shipwreck. Making money meant nothing to me. Of course, I didn't like...
...agent sent the shirt to a Y. M. C. A. for laundering, charged off 15? to claims. Last week Needier Smyth's shirt, returned without comment, was back on his back. Said he: "A businessman is entitled to arrive at his destination reasonably clean...