Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholics we abominate and we condemn syndicated crime and vice. It is as despicable as it is evil. We condemn the underworld and all its barbarous and cowardly ways. But we condemn also the overworld-liquor executives, public officials . . . and the like who, though able to retain the aura of respectability, sacrifice every decent principle for their own contemptible and selfish ends...
After ten years of expansion, the Center is now seeking new quarters to replace the quaint but inadequate Victorian edifice. But, as one of the members remarked. "Let's hope that the new building will retain the friendly atmosphere always found in the Meads' home...
Government 1 will mix ladies with men in lectures, but will retain separate sections for each sex, according to Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and co-chairman of the course...
...matter of fact, the varsity has a better than even chance of getting more than 20 points. The relays, the dive, and the breaststroke are out of its reach, but Joe Fox may retain his undefeated standing in the 50-yard freestyle. Depending on who swims for Eli Coach Bob Kiphuth, Captain Fog may take second or even first...
...Stripes, a rumpled, rawboned man with electric hair. (Dorothy Parker cracked that her life ambition was to walk barefoot through it.) At 57, Ross can afford a good tailor ("I'm a well-dressed man!" he indignantly insists) and curbs his hair, but he has somehow managed to retain the air of permanent dishevelment. Once ex-New Yorker Writer Margaret Case Harriman called Ross "that lovable old volcano," and the late Alexander Woollcott described him as "Dodsworth, with an overlay of violence." Ross is still personally noisy and professionally restrained, still charmingly churlish and intelligently ignorant, but his reputation...