Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cold & Embalmed." In retaliation, the Clements-Wetherby forces have hit hard at Chandler, bringing up the free swimming pool a contractor once installed (1942) in U.S. Senator Chandler's back yard, and producing some damning canceled checks, totaling $32,841,40, which Happy received from a liquor wholesaler at a time when he was Senator and baseball's high commissioner. For a while Lawyer Chandler pooh-poohed the "silly questions" about the liquor firm's checks, finally got the company's former president to declare that they were legitimate fees for legal services. The nature...
...insisted that the union was getting its money's worth. The house has three bedrooms and three baths on one floor, two two-car garages, a separate four-room apartment, a movie room with seats for 50 and two theater-sized projectors, a bathhouse, a heated tile swimming pool covering 1,000 square feet, and an ornamental stream with artificial rock waterfall, illuminated at night. Dave Beck feels that it is just the kind of place a labor leader should have. Said he: "The labor movement has to pay its top executives what business would pay in similar positions...
...between Adenauer and the Russians. Result: a curious revival of French enthusiasm for "la relance européenne," or the relaunching of the idea of Europe. In Faure's Cabinet last week, Robert Schuman, father of Europe's only successful experiment in supranationalism (the Schuman Coal-Steel Pool), argued for a big push towards European unity before Adenauer flies to Moscow. Faure, for the first time, sided with the "Europeans" in his Cabinet. To Brussels, where the West Europeans are discussing a supranational atomic energy program, the Premier sent a message: Go ahead in earnest...
Inside the four-mile square of Tartar City rose the pavilion-studded Imperial City, and, inside that, the Forbidden City. Yung Lo scooped out portions of the Imperial City to make the Pool of Great Fertilizing Spume, used the excavated earth to build Coal Hill as a protection for the palace against zephyrs from evil spirits of the North. Fed by Golden Water River flowing from Jade Fountain, the pool was actually a necklace of three lakes named North, Middle and South...
...game in the occasional twosome or threesome, makes polite conversation, may later offer to buy a drink, play a hand of cards, swap a story or two. Meanwhile, his wife is getting to know the other wives, his children are busy making friends in the club swimming pool. Gradually, if he plays a good game, he gets to be known, more people want to play with him, and he expands his circle of friends. Eventually, it pays off in dozens of direct and indirect ways. One young Milwaukee advertising man, for example, got himself on a club committee, worked...