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...knows, for example, that Professor X generally parks for about an hour, he can put his car near the front of a lot, and if he knows that Professor Y spends the whole day in his lab, he can put his car in some out-of-the-way nook...
...visited by introduction (cost of a night of love: 1,000 zlotys)." Of 310 "notorious prostitutes" interviewed, 106 were homeless. On cold and rainy nights they committed petty offenses "for the purpose of being arrested and obtaining at least a temporary roof over their heads, a warm nook and a spoonful of warm food...
...however, who prefer to live outside the Houses although they do not fulfill the qualifications. These individuals find that the Houses, with their overcrowding, make it impossible to pursue studies or other work in peace, quiet, and solitude. Communal living is beneficial, but there are times when a quiet nook away from the world and roommates is more desirable...
...relationship became even closer after Margaret McTague Wagner died in 1919, when young Bob was just nine. Old and young Bob hiked together in the Lake Placid woods, made the first of Bob Jr.'s seven trips to Europe, traveled together on political business to every nook and cranny of New York State (Bob knows upstate New York as do few city politicians and-more important to this year's Senate campaign-upstate New York knows him). Recalls Wagner: "Sometimes Father would show signs of fatigue as we'd ride along. But the minute...
...scene: a smoke-filled nook in the grill of Chicago's Democrat-bulged Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel. Dining together are Kentucky's blackhorse presidential candidate, guffaw-prone Governor Albert B. ("Be lucky, go Happy!") Chandler, and Chicago's weighty Democratic Boss Jacob Arvey. Enter, with a dust-devilish swoop, Washington's plain-spoken Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta. Grandam Mesta (to Chandler): I hear that you are running for President, but you certainly aren't taking yourself seriously, are you? "Happy" Chandler (hurt to the quick): I certainly am. I'm spending...