Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dining room of their country mansion, "there were always two little colored girls ... to waft the flies from us with enormous peacock feathers." When the time came for Gerard to go to Yale, he thought it would be wise to case the ancient joint before entrusting his person to it. Horrified by its soiled, congested appearance, Gerard entered Princeton, a place which to him really "looked like a university...
...everybody, including the deposed coach, because anyone in a position to explain was, in the words of Boston journalists, "mum." Somehow the story first worked its way onto The Boston Herald's front page on the day after New Year's, and since Jordan seemed to be the only person who wasn't maternally "mum", some suspected that it was he who confessed...
...select group of Americans there is a global plan of expense-paid travel. In Paris, for example, such a privileged person may be met on arrival by an officer of the U.S. Embassy-sometimes fondly called "the Boodle Man." The traveler is handed an envelope containing the boodle: as much as $500 in French francs. From then on, the visitor is on his own, needs only to check in with the embassy's boodle man to replenish his wallet. In 1955 in Paris alone, some 700 Junketeers availed themselves of this service, to the tune...
...simply swigging an "atomic cocktail" of radioactive iodine. Tobacco is no longer banned in all cases-"there is little point in forbidding a tense patient to smoke a little, if that serves to relax him." Also, "if one or two drinks a day serve to relax an otherwise apprehensive person, it would be unwise to prohibit them." But the patient must not drink heavily because that-it is now known-adds to the burden on the heart instead of decreasing it. Angina patients are now also allowed to fly, in preference to a longer, more fatiguing surface journey, thanks...
...sunk 21 ships, and I wish to God it had been 121." Thus Texas Independent Oil Producer H. P. Nichols hailed Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for blockading the Suez Canal. At the annual banquet of the West Central Texas Oil & Gas Association came more kudos. "As the person who has done the most for West Central Texas oilmen," Nasser was voted the members' "extinguished service" award: a bright pink chamber...