Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the usually empty corridors of this backdoor entrance favored by impecunious undergraduates, the authorities have stationed a little man with a notebook and no sense of humor. When asked about this novel practice the Elevated people said that any difficulties would be "settled between the student and the College." It is doubtful whether University Hall smiles on this fire sale saving any more than the Cambridge police...
Pocket contents: one reporter's notebook; one address book; one batch name cards, minus which it is almost impossible to do business in China (front of card bears my name in English; reverse side has the Chinese translation, Go Ho Ping, meaning Hope For Peace, which causes many high & low folk to remark: "Very nice name"); one pen, one pencil, one penknife, one passport, two car keys; one inoculation certificate showing 14 original shots plus regular boosters, minus which air travel is taboo; one Chinese Government certificate of registration as a correspondent; about 30,000 dollars Chinese, which...
...costumes-designed by Hollywood's Adrian. In the sewing room of Adrian's chic pastel salon, there is a headless and barrel-chested, size 46, grey muslin model standing majestically between those of Claudette Colbert, size 32, and Norma Shearer, size 32. Adrian's loose-leaf notebook lists the Traubel specifications after those for "Temple, Shirley." They tell a sizable story: "Bust, 51 inches [Shirley's is 34"]; waist, 45½ inches; upper hips, 47 inches; lower hips, 46 inches." The Isolde costumes required from 18 to 25 yards, cost...
...very modest intellectual attainments. His reading is chiefly military biography and military history-especially Pennsylvania's. The books he studies most are books he himself has compiled. One black notebook contains all the industrial, agricultural, religious and political facts, county by county, of the great and polyglot state which he has run for four years. Another tabulation shows the county by county vote for governor for many years back. On political history and facts the general is solid...
Unthinkingly but deliberately, Vag drew a large "H" in the margin of his notebook and had the shading all done by five of the hour. He heard the instructor say something about ends. End of what? Vag wondered. End of the class? He wrote "Flynn" and then, more carefully, "Coulson." Under the "H"--probably a major "H" Vag thought-- he put down "Davis, Dewey, Drvarie." He was thinking about the other guard when the clatter of closing books came in on him. He wrote "Rodis" quickly and shut his notebook...