Word: porter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seth Warren, an FOSYL member, placed pamphlets denouncing the acquittal of six Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen charged with the killing of five Communists on each table of the Union, but Peter Maloney, a Union porter, removed the leaflets, taking some out of students' hands and throwing them away, and returning others to Warren. "He said what we have is garbage and was harassing me," Warren said...
...sends people who want to put leaflets in the dining hall over to see me for permission," Young said, adding that the porter was justified in removing the pamphlets, because the FOSYL had neglected this requirement...
...wisecracking chorus girl who takes Ruby under her wing (a resemblance to Joan Blondell certainly helps). The chorus-girl's argumentative romance with yet another sailor (Frank Pastor) makes Ruby's saccharine affair a little less cloying. Although conducted in a duet which dreamily imitates the worst of Cole Porter, Mona Kent's seduction of the wealthy Captain injects some welcome opportunism into an otherwise hopelessly unworldly world. Goodness prevails, but, gratifyingly, even the selfish end up happy in Dames...
...American League pennant in the enemy's ballpark and watched leads disappear in the first two World Series games before deafeningly partisan Philadelphia fans. Largely a home-grown lot nurtured in the Royals' farm system, they were glad to be back among friends. Said Catcher Darrell Porter: "We haven't heard a single cheer for anything we've done for a week. It will be good to get back to our park and our fans...
...Phillies set a record of their own in top of the ninth, leaving two men on base for a game total of fourteen left on. Kansas City was no more successful as Otis hit into a double play, voiding a McRae single, and Darrell Porter popped out to right field...