Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern Pines. The President's staging was expert. His train left Washington in midafternoon, arrived in warm, pine-fragrant Georgia the next morning. He motored 40 miles from Newnan to Warm Springs under a cobalt sky, talked happily for a half-hour with Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, his secretary for 21 years, now slowly recovering from acute neuritis [at the Foundation]. He drank his favorite old-fashioneds at a cocktail party given by Warm Springs Trustee Leighton Goldie McCarthy, 71-year-old Canadian Minister to the U.S., and went to his annual Warm Springs turkey dinner, twice postponed...
...Minnesota Harvard men are the worst offenders of the lot of us. There're millions of them scattered around the House system and the Yard, and Wellesley and Pine Manor are teeming with Gopheresses...
...included subdued riffs by Benny Carter's Septet, tap dancing by an extraordinary young Negro named Baby Lawrence, songs by Maxine Sullivan, three of them to harpsichord accompaniment. The recital got chastely in the groove when the harpsichord, precisely pecked by willowy, red-haired Sylvia Marlowe, gave forth Pine-top's Boogie, rolling bass...
...afternoon in Manhattan a man sits at a microphone watching a clock. As minute and second hand cut the hour he speaks. The vibration which is the "sound" of his voice becomes an electrical vibration. It speeds along a wire to a building in a scrub-pine clearing 40 miles away. There with the aid of a wafer of quartz crystal vibrating at a constant frequency of perhaps 11,830,000 cycles per second, and boosted by thousands of watts of electric power, the vibrations ripple from a great antenna outward in waves 26 meters long. In no time...
Strictly a non-date affair, the dance will last from 8 until 12 o'clock, during which time girls from Wellesley, Pine Manor, Simmons, and Radcliffe will have a chance to meet eligible Harvard men and dance to the music of Ken Reeves...