Word: possessor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vince Di Maggio (batting average: .264), slick-haired, outfielding elder brother of peacetime Yankee Outfielder Sergeant Joe, vigorously ignored the $4.50-a-day meal ticket allowed to Pittsburgh Pirates on the road. In a single Philadelphia sitting he ate $9.97 worth, charged it to the club. Possessor of a priceless 4-F rating (for stomach ulcers), he dared the Pittsburgh management: "If you think I eat too much, trade...
...spared the barbs of the sophisticates who patronized him, but was confided in, trusted, never helped to great success, never permitted to sink to disaster. Later, when the full quality of Keats's genius began to be known, Severn was recognized as a hero, an authority, and the possessor of Keats's most valuable manuscripts and recollections. One day Severn ran away with the reputedly illegitimate daughter of Lord Montgomerie, married her, lived happily ever after...
...idea was not so dizzy as it seemed. The Scot was William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 50, Colonel the Baron Sempill, and also possessor of a title many Nova Scotians had not known existed: Baronet of Nova Scotia. An ancestor, one Sir William Forbes, served King James I in England's 17th-Century civil wars, had been rewarded with the baronetcy and 16,000 acres in "New Scotland." When "New Scotland" was ceded to the French in 1632, Sir William lost the land but kept the title...
...liked and respected him. Franklin Roosevelt did, and trusted Good Friend Charley implicitly. McNary was a public power enthusiast. He was a farm booster, with a name known to millions of farmers through his McNary-Haugen Act, forerunner of all farm subsidies. Not a man of international vision, but possessor of conscience and integrity, he veered back & forth on intervention before Pearl Harbor. These attitudes told as much of his origin as his thinking. He was born and all his life lived in Salem, Ore. (pop. 30,900), the town whence his grandfather had led the biggest caravan of covered...
...lieutenant general glittering on his shoulders, Eaker drove to Buckingham Palace, flanked by a young aide and an Air Ministry official. In an anteroom the escort stood aside while the General was ushered alone into His Majesty's study. Forty-five minutes later General Eaker emerged, possessor of one of Britain's highest military honors, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division). If Ira Eaker were a British subject he would have been invested as a knight, becoming Sir Ira; since he is as American as a jeep the knighthood was purely honorary...