Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same kind of audience which listens to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra on Sunday afternoons, CBS last month tried out a program called The Pursuit of Happiness. For this show, a half-hour of not-too-spangly Americana designed to balance the ugly weight of war news, it collected a star-spangled cast...
...grey dawn, under the guns of Fort Monroe, a ghost ship slipped into the harbor at Hampton Roads, Va. There were 451 persons aboard. Of them, 429 were captives. Twenty-two were members of a German prize crew who had kept the prisoners subdued while dodging British pursuit, sailing the ship across the South Atlantic. The ship was the British-owned liner Appam, captured off the African coast by a German raider that had already sunk or captured seven vessels. And as the Appam dropped anchor in the harbor of a troubled neutral, it gave...
...like an anachronism appeared from nowhere. He was tremendously interesting from the point of view of both the Egyptologist and the psychoanalyst and even to Vag. It seemed almost certain that he was scurrying off to some clandestine meeting, deep in the entrails of Boylston Street, so Vag took pursuit. Of course it was bitterly disappointing to Vag's visions of international intrigue when he saw the little man turn off and head for Harvard Hall, but still hopeful, Vag followed him into the lecture room and procured a seat directly behind him. Instantly the little man produced a decrepit...
...Franklyn Waltman. In the name of Republican Congressman (and Dies Committeeman) John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, Mr. Waltman handed the following poison-ivy bouquet to Attorney General Frank Murphy: "Our dynamic attorney general, who has been so enthusiastically and tirelessly swooping by airplane all over the country in pursuit of lesser violators of the law . . . has been strangely indifferent and listless in the case of Browder. . . . Even Browder must be surprised, perhaps slightly contemptuous. . . ." Thereupon a spokesman for Frank Murphy replied: "It obviously seems to be a curious coincidence that the Republican National Committee issues a statement tonight...
...socks, in ski pants and starched white spats, 100-odd socialites gathered last week on the rambling estate of Capitalist Oakleigh Thorne at Millbrook, N. Y. Sniffing the crisp Dutchess County air, they galumphed over the meadows, up & down hill, tripping over cornstalks, leaping heavily over brooks & briars-in pursuit of a pack of beagles who were in pursuit of a wily hare. Local farmers would never go in for such crosscountry foolishness, but if they did, they would call it a rabbit hunt. In sport parlance this mixture of old clothes and cocktail breaths is known as beagling...