Word: philadelphia
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...bitch." But a more common reaction is that of the Boston milkwagon driver who said: "The court didn't find him guilty [of bribery]. For my dough he's a go-through guy." More ominous and often just beneath the surface was the reaction of a Philadelphia truck driver when asked what he thought of Hoffa: "I'd rather look at that river over there than float...
Francis Hopkinson (1737-91) was a Philadelphia lawyer ("One of your pretty, little, curious, ingenious men," wrote John Adams), inventor of an improved method of quilling the harpsichord, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first native American composer. He wrote several English-flavored songs, a quantity of church music and an "oratorial entertainment" entitled The Temple of Minerva, which his scattered fans claim as the first American opera. His most ambitious work was Seven Songs, dedicated to his old friend George Washington, who confessed that "I can neither sing one of the songs, nor raise a single note...
Even more than most of the U.S. press, Philadelphia's twice-weekly Tribune found front-page copy in the ordeal of William Edward Myers Jr., 34, a refrigerator-equipment tester, after he moved his wife and three children into a three-bedroom house in Levittown, Pa. The Myerses are Negroes, the first to move into Levittown* and the Tribune, a Negro paper only 21 miles away, gave all-out coverage to the tense week in which state troopers finally discouraged the jeering, stone-throwing mob that kept badgering the Myers home...
...more than $70 million), which calls itself a "promotional department store" and is even listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has quickly fanned its discount selling into the suburbs to follow population trends. Of its eleven stores, four (including two supermarkets) are in Westchester County, Long Island, suburban Philadelphia; seven of the nine new Korvette stores planned by the end of 1958 will be in other bustling suburbs...