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...young Indianan who worked under Harry Hopkins as a State WPAdministrator, was a longtime protege of Indianan Paul McNutt, outgrew McNutt to become increasingly important to the President as a drafter of domestic and defense programs. He is spectacled, sallow, and extremely fast of mind...
...present site on 44th street was purchased and the clubhouse was opened in 1895--45 years ago. Additions followed rapidly as the group outgrew the building. In 1905 athletic facilities and quarters in which to house members were added and in 1915 the capacity of the house was doubled. With this addition the physical growth of the club's facilities has evidently been finally completed...
...children's classics* (Hansi, Quito Express et al.), and of two adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences. But Bemelmans is still a Katzenjammer kid. His fame, in fact, rests largely on the fact that he never outgrew his Katzenjammerism; it gives his drawings and prose a special quality of naive sophistication, outlandish imagination, impulsiveness, sly satire...
Soon the Dankowskes outgrew their caravan, got one bigger, better equipped. In 1923 they bought a $4,200 super-caravan, the Nomad. They never had to replace this...
...Minneapolis, a golf-zealous grain broker named Herman Berg forbade his frecklefaced 13-year-old daughter Patty to play any more football (she was halfback on a boys' team) gave her four of his old golf clubs; taught her many a trick of the game before she outgrew her middy blouses...