Word: personation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hair, and mud may not be thrown into the street; you can't beat a carpet or tie a horse to a tree on any public ground. Even gambling is covered by these ancient rules. No person, according to one ordinance, may expose a gaming table of any kind in any lane, alley, or street...
Winter sports enthusiasts cannot coast down a street on a sled without the mayor's permission, and even pedestrians are restricted. "No person," says one law, "shall remain for a longer time than 20 minutes upon a sidewalk in such a manner as to obstruct the free passage of foot travelers," and anyone who is still lottering five minutes after being told to leave by a policeman, is liable for arrest...
...teach school but lately has clerked in the Senator's hotel. She was divorced two years ago; his wife died last August. "It was a whirlwind romance," said the bride-to-be, who described the balding chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee as "a very romantic person." Mrs. Rabenhorst, who dabbles in poetry, let the press have some...
...Something Should Happen." His father was a Congregational minister in upstate New York, his mother was a friend of Mark Twain (she wrote his funeral elegy) and one of the first women ordained in the Congregational Church. A forceful and free-thinking person (she once sincerely assured her congregation "that if they could find a spiritual up lift elsewhere, there was no reason for coming to church"), Mrs. Eastman spent her last, vigorous year learning to swim, undergoing a Freudian analysis and deciding to leave her church. Her advice to her son, to "live out of yourself persistently," helped...
...first asked for an arbitration board composed of three University alumni, to be selected by President Conant. When this offer was refused, the strikers requested a board of three Faculty members of the Harvard Club, and then any three members of the Club, to be chosen by an impartial person agreeable to both parties...