Word: pal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times, but he soon learned that though they enjoyed meeting people, people did not always enjoy meeting them. If the Indians approved of someone they met, they would put an arm around his neck (much in the manner of Manhattan's robust Restaurateur Toots Shor greeting an Old Pal), and then just stand there, keeping the neck firmly clasped, for as long as half an hour. So for most of their stay, the Indians remained in the apartment. "We just looked at them," said Medeiros, "and they just looked at us." To add to the family's trials...
Next day, Mr. Salteena bluntly told Bernard: "You can help me perhaps to be more like a gentleman . . . Well. . . said Bernard I can give you a letter to my old pal the Earl of Clincham ... He might rub you up ... Oh ten thousand thanks said Mr. Salteena ... If you would be so kind as to keep an eye on Ethel while I am away ... I dont think you will find her any trouble." To which Bernard answered warmly, "No I dont think I shall...
...Eddie Eagan won the championship of the Inter-Allied game sin 1919. As an Olympic light-heavyweight he won the championship in 1920. At Yale he was U.S. amateur heavyweight champion, and as a Rhodes scholar in 1924 Eagan won his boxing "blue" at Oxford, coached his teammate and pal "The Fighting Marquess" (of Clydesdale), now Duke of Hamilton.* As a successful Manhattan lawyer and a lover of boxing, Eagan won another plum in 1945: boxing commissioner of New York State...
...World. In Manhattan, the Pal Blade Co. abandoned hope of organizing a female barbershop quartet after a city-wide canvass turned up only two lady barbers...
...fighter and damned by the newspapers as an inept one, Chandler nevertheless bulls his Neanderthal way to the championship. With none of the authentic prize-ring flavor of Champion, Iron Man has a hollow ring, and badly dents the laws of probability by having Chandler dethroned by an old pal from the same tiny mining town...