Word: parked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rita Beane of Oak Park, Ill. was accidentally locked out of her house in freezing weather, hammered unavailingly for readmittance. Her father-in-law, a radio amateur, had his earphones clamped on tight, and was too busy talking with a ham in Johannesburg, South Africa to hear her. She stepped to a neighbor's house, telephoned another ham, had him contact Station Z56KD in Johannesburg, which notified her father-in-law that she wanted to get back inside...
Dondero's don'ts: don't smoke behind the rails or chew on unlighted pipes or cigars; don't park feet on the top or back of chairs; don't walk in front of a member who is speaking; don't read newspapers on the floor during a session; don't call colleagues by their given names-Jim or John ("we all know better-it's the gentleman or gentlewoman...
...Richard Hoffmann, a prominent Park Avenue psychiatrist, furnished an explanation of sorts. When Frank came to him three years ago, he didn't sleep so well: his mind was troubled. He suffered from a sense of "frustrated superiority"-socially, that is. Frankie was anxious to meet the better people-"and nothing but the better," said Frankie...
...Lack of Bosses. Trim and youngish at 43, Editor Nichols makes $35,000 a year, and spends only seven months a year in his Manhattan office. The rest of the time he travels, on expense account, around the U.S. and Europe, picking up ideas. At home, on Park Avenue, he and his Czech-born wife Marie Thérèse, who speaks seven languages, entertain a babbling stream of foreign authors and artists, who are also tapped for ideas...
Critical Comparisons. None of the eminent writers on the staff of the Freeman (e.g., Van Wyck Brooks and Suzanne La Follette) knew where he lived. It was an office joke that the only way to communicate with him was by leaving a letter under a certain stone in Central Park. He was an expert billiard player, a master of Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and a seasoned music critic. He was in the U.S. foreign service, serving under Ambassador Brand Whitlock in occupied Belgium in World War I. Since he had also been an Episcopal clergyman, his diary is studded with...