Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again the grumble of discontented stomachs causes some headache to trouble-ridden John Harvard. Again his unruly crowd of pupils clamors for richer foods terrestrial, as if the fare of Learning were not enough to still the scholar's appetite. The battle-cry of Harvard's venerable past--"behold, the butter stinketh!"--again resounds in academic ears, but in a modern version that may well produce streamlined results...
Medalists in the annual Harvard-Yale Princeton debates this year are Phil C Neal '40, Paul W. Cherington '40. Stanley O. Beren '41, Jack Orloff '41, James J. Pattee '41, Langdon P. Marvin Jr. '41, Richard R. Wolf '41, and Allan B. Ncker '41, Wolf and Richer are alternates...
Explained happy Hoppe, richer by $3,500 in prize money: "It's just like playing golf. You have to keep your head down and follow through...
...richer that mobs got from bootlegging and allied rackets, the more help they could deliver in elections, the more beholden the bosses became. Thompson & Raymond draw a pretty picture of the principal gangs and gang leaders during that era, of their boyish purchases in haberdashery and chorus girls, their nights into the nightclub business and into sports ("Big Bill" Dwyer introduced professional hockey to Manhattan), their celebrated lawyers such as "The Great Mouthpiece" Fallon. They name certain such semi-criminal fixers who are still in the law business...
...awards: 1) to the late Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for international services to motion pictures; 2) to the late Playwright Sidney Howard for his Gone With the Wind script. Of the 17 major Oscars handed out, ten were copped by G.W.T.W. Producer David O. Selznick, pretty proud and getting richer by the minute, said he would send an extra check to Author Margaret Mitchell...