Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly 20 years ago, Mildred Bailey lowered her mountainous bulk into her niece's tot-sized red rocking chair to pass the time of day with friend Hoagy Carmichael. When she tried to get up, the chair got up with her. Said Mildred with a laugh: "This ol' rockin' chair's got me, I guess." A month later, Composer Carmichael had finished the song that made Mildred famous...
Hunted Past. How he fared he told in the final issue of the Bell. "Having been in the U.S. before, I took it the visa would be readily forthcoming . . . I am preeminently the aging, kindly gentleman that should pass in & out of any county unnoticed." Actually, he was not that Milquetoasty: he had fought for the republic in 1918, been caught and condemned to death, escaped by setting fire to the jail. One of his novels (The Way It Was With Them) was chosen a book of-the-month (1928) by the Catholic Book Club of America...
Hard Coal. Producers of more than 50% of the nation's hard coal raised prices from 20? to 30? a ton. The mine operators said the increases would meet an expected demand for higher wages by John L. Lewis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Dealers said they would have to pass the increases along to consumers...
Headed by Robert F. Bradford '23, chief marshal of the Alumni, the assembled members of the reunion classes will form at 2 o'clock in the outer Yard and pass into the Theater after commencement dignitaries on the Widener steps review the pageant...
...Chemistry concentrators looking for a pleassut way to pass some dewy summer mornings around Cambridge will find the doors of the department's tutorial library flung open invitingly one morning per week...