Word: pints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Par. In Chattanooga, arrested on a charge of public drunkenness, William R. Coleman protested to police: "It takes a quart and a pint to make me drunk, and I've only had a quart...
...allowance for his support ran to $1,900 monthly-and he spent $2,500 on a two-week European trip last year. But he was so broke that sometimes he sold a pint of blood for $10. He ran up big bills at clothing stores, but his wardrobe was small; some said he peddled clothing to buy dope. Although he died with a nearly empty wallet, an open fight soon developed over the fortune...
...voice's owner turned out to be Pennsylvania-born Peggy King, 24, a pint-size gamine who had been working in the music business for six fairly obscure years. Talent Scout Miller had himself turned her down after hearing several of her records. Intrigued, Miller telephoned Peggy King at her Hollywood home. "This," he began, "is Mitch Miller." "And this," the unbelieving singer answered, "is Snow White. And all the dwarfs are here, too." Identities were finally established, and Peggy King signed with Miller. Last week Columbia issued as her first effort The Hottentot, a tongue twister silly...
...Paris' pint-sized Roland Garros Stadium, American Singles Champion Tony Trabert ran Californian Art Larsen all over a wet and sloppy court to take the French Clay Court Tennis Championship, 6-4, 7-5, 6-1. Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly turned the tournament into an American triumph by overpowering Mme. Ginnette Bucaille...
...final count, De Valera was defeated largely on the issue of the price of a pint of beer. "Surely," he said to one heckling voter in Limerick, "there is more in the world than the pint." But to many an Irishman, wearied by years of heavy taxation and high prices, unimpressed by the government's high-sounding plans to "harness the winds and the tides" in expensive power projects, the i s. 3 d. pint of beer was the whole story. Since De Valera was responsible for it, De Valera must...