Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lowell House and Teheran, Iran, Jonathan F. Beecher '58, of Adams House and Milton, David W. Bernstein '59, of Dunster House and New York City, Peter H. Bodenheimer '59, of Eliot House and Salt Lake City, Utah, Peter P. Brooks '59, of Eliot House and New Canaan, Ct., David O. Carpenter '59 of Winthrop House and Granada, Minn., Michael J. Chamberlin '59, of Kirkland House and Honolulu, Hawaii, Glenn W. Clark '56, of Winthrop House and Georgetown, Idaho, and John P. Demos '59, of Lowell House and Cambridge...
...boil yer 'ead!" Minutes later, in class, the same two children recited Housman's poetry, and their every o was pear-shaped, every a well rounded, every h clearly aspirated. Confided the boy: "We know if we talk nice-I mean, nicely-we'll get better jobs...
...housing development at East Grinstead, authorities recently refused to distribute a police leaflet giving advice on protecting homes from burglars until the phrase "working-class families" was eliminated. Laborers no longer doff their hats to squires or mumble that the good things of life "are not for the likes o' me," and more and more of them, in their work clothes, move from the stand-up bar to the saloon bar adjoining, where for a penny a pint more, they can sit at a table. "Before the war," says a pubkeeper, "they wouldn't have dared. Apart from...
...same corral. Instead of "a wood near Athens," Reeve's Dream is set on a Texas ranch in the 1880s, and the guitar-twanging players appear in Stetsons, bandannas and bustles (Hippolyta is an Indian princess in white buckskin). The dialogue is unchanged except by Texas tongues: "O naht! alack, alack, alack! Ah feah mah Thisby's promise is furgot...
...that the story would be held until the roundup began. But United Press International, which did not staff Silver's briefing, was told about the raid by a "responsible police official." who set the release date at 10 p.m. Out on the U.P.I, wire in time for 10 o'clock radio newscasts clacked word of Silver's sortie, a full two hours before the cops were due to swoop...