Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fishing he loves. The two bicycles given him by admirers are locked up in the cellar at Prince's Gate. He sees an occasional movie, sometimes gets in a walk in Hyde Park or a weekend in the country. After this week he will miss his rare, free evenings at home with Mrs. Douglas and daughter Sharman (a crashing belle of London society). They flew back to the U.S. for Christmas in New York with son Peter, down from Yale, and New Year's in Arizona with son James, a Tucson bank clerk...
Fables once proffered morals painlessly. Today they are seldom dispensed with as much ease except in a rare novel or motion picture. Such a picture is "Frieda" that may be considered all the more exceptional for having come out of war-scarred England. For "Frieda" convincingly expounds the moral that Germans are human beings and a blanket indictment of them or any people fails to recognize human differences. Hardly a palatable axiom in itself for many Englishmen today, but it becomes so at the hands of Swedish actress Mei Zetterling and a cast all of whom deserve equal plaudits...
Last weekend, however, I stayed in Trumbull College, Yale, and ate several meals there. We enjoyed rare roast beef that was tender and tasty, milk in individual paper bottles, and choice of dessert, including crackers and fancy cheese. This, I learned, is the usual quality of the fare of Yale men who even see an occasional lamb chop. The amazing thing is they pay only $10 per week for this delicious repast...
...rock crystal Easter egg rimmed with diamonds and topped with a rare 27-carat Siberian emerald. By twisting the emerald and peeking into the egg, the Czarina could see twelve gold-framed miniatures of her favorite palaces, radiating from a thin gold axis...
...reported yesterday as slowly regaining his health through the prompt action of the Council and Dr. Arlie V. Bock '15 of the Hygiene Department. Dr. Bock, in cooperation with the National Intercollegiate Christian Council and the Boston Red Cross arranged for a second shipment of 62 grams of the rare drug to Ellis...