Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself is no angel. Operating a rumor factory, he has something on everybody ("Everybody knows Manny Davis--except Mrs. Manny Davis"). Yet he appears on television each afternoon, spreading the American Gospel: "Our best secret weapon is D-E-M-O-C-R-A-C-Y." His weakness is his devotion to Suzy, whom he doesn't want to lose. When he finally does, one feels very satisfied...
...inmates, aged 14 to 17, living in a rickety 1936 WPA building. Most were sentenced to work on the reform farm for petty offenses such as stealing hubcaps, a few were allowed to stay simply because of broken homes and nowhere else to go. Each night at seven o'clock, they were locked inside their old dormitory by one of three key-carrying Negro officials. Thus they were confined one night last week, when fire broke out; the building was enveloped in flames before anybody could reach the padlocks...
...England on a Fulbright, studied for a year at the University of Durham, and "lived in a genuine medieval castle, built by William the Conqueror. It had central heating that worked except for Sundays when they tried to heat the Cathedral, too; and there was a policy of 11 o'clock close-up that meant anyone coming home later had to scale two walls and a dry moat, then climb the castle wall itself. But there were plenty of cracks...
Ralph Marterie and his band will play for the formal Saturday night dance on Jubilee Weekend, O. Y. Lewis '62, chairman of the Freshman Jubilee Committee, announced yesterday. Earlier this term, the committee had signed a contract with George Wein and the Storyville band for the Friday night dance...
...anticipate closer connections between the Clinic and our School in the future, with more students receiving training there," Roy O. Greep, Dean of the School for Dental Medicine, commented yesterday...