Word: partners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Benny has never forgotten his attempt to be funny on the night, 15 years ago, when George Burns married his partner, Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalia Allen, in Cleveland. Benny's idea of humor was to call up the newlyweds from San Francisco at 3 a.m. He did so and, getting a male voice, inquired, "Hello, George?" The male voice at once barked, "Send up two orders of ham and eggs" and hung...
Everett Pearl, an adagio dancer, won a divorce from her partner, who, she charged, was too realistic in his tossing. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Robert Worthington won a divorce after complaining that her husband had nagged her when she had her broken jaw wired shut...
Facts v. Shibboleths. The Justice Department insisted that Federal policing of the antitrust laws does not imply any subtraction from the states' right to police the rest of the insurance business. And in its fight to separate shibboleths from facts it had a potent-though silent-partner: the $36 billion life insurance industry, which has quietly dissociated itself from the Bailey-Van Nuys bill and privately sees no reason why insurance should not be called commerce...
...principle on which the device is based was discovered by a Cheadle partner named H. L. Durham, now retired. Puget Sound fishermen could not understand why their boats' propellers and metal rudderposts wore out so fast in the water. Durham thought it might be accounted for by electrolysis (the process by which an electric current in a liquid transfers metal from positive to negative poles...
There are two floors of stacks below the building, having a capacity of more than 1,000,000 books. The present collection about half fills them, and about a tenth of these are on exhibition. Unlike the dingy labyrinths of Houghton's senior partner, the stacks are bright with fluorescent lighting that penetrates even to the bottom shelf, but only members of the staff are allowed to appreciate them. The light and humidity of the entire building are so regulated as to prolong the life of the manuscripts