Word: oed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was sued for $50,000 by the mother of one of two men who held up a B. & O. streamliner in West Virginia. Mrs. Ruth Ungar complained that her boy had had a few when he got aboard the train. He was allowed more drinks in the diner, became "intoxicated and insouciant," and that's what led him to armed robbery, she argued. She didn't mention that George was on probation from an Ohio reformatory or explain why he was packing a pistol...
...ashtrays, wastebaskets, even on the panties and bras that McCarthy presented to his women guests. (The men got cowboy boots from the hides of prize cattle that provided the steaks.) The crowd whooped it up so hard that speeches by McCarthy, Texas' Governor Beauford Jester and Cinemactors Pat O'Brien and Leo Carrillo had to be put off until midnight. Rival Houston Hotelman Jesse Jones sat it all out quietly. Dorothy Lamour tried to sing in the Emerald Room, but carefree customers swore into the microphone ("Where the hell's my seat?"), and NBC cut Dottie...
Arthur Murray dance teachers named the best non-professional dancers of the land, without saying whether they were customers. Among the favored: Joe DiMaggio, Doris Duke, Bing Crosby, Esther Williams and (for "dignity, poise and bearing") New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer and General Mark W. Clark...
...quite counted on staying around for the finals. Admitted Loyola Coach Tom Haggerty: "None of us brought enough shirts." But by the end of the week, there they were, on top of the tournament. Loyola had taken the measure of C.C.N.Y. (62-47) and Bradley University (55-5O) as well as of Kentucky. Meanwhile, San Francisco's Dons, also an unheralded lot, had beaten Manhattan (68-43), Utah (64-63) and Bowling Green (49-39)Towels & Value. On the night of the finals, 18,297 crowded into the Garden, hoping for a scoring duel between brawny...
...likes to hear all about his four children's day in school. The Trippes see little of Manhattan's night life. They usually spend Trippe's off hours at home in their big apartment on fashionable Gracie Square, a stone's pitch from Mayor O'Dwyer's mansion and the tooting tugs on the East River. (A deafening blast once startled a telephoner into asking Mrs. Trippe: "Madame, do you live on a barge...