Word: riley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere near Cincinnati, they held a business meeting. Morris Riley, in charge of arrangements, explained that they didn't need to worry about formal clothes. Morris said: "Captain Truman told us that we could go anywhere so long as we wore shoes." They practiced a parody of Tipperary to sing to Captain Truman: "Up from Jackson County came a county judge one day. He worked into the White House of this grand old U.S.A...
Pentagonal League individual scoring leaders: Casey (Brown), W. Riley (Dartmouth), five goals: Garrity (Harvard), J. Riley (Dartmouth), Priestly (Brown), four goals; Kittredge (Harvard), Malo (Brown), Carman (Harvard), Copeland (Brown), Huntington (Harvard), Harrison (Dartmouth), three goals...
Would the British-Israeli clash disrupt the scheduled peace talk between Egypt and Israel? Mediator Bunche, as usual, was optimistic. So was his chief of staff, Brigadier General William E. Riley. As the two men took off from La Guardia Field this week for Rhodes, they were ready for the best and the worst. The Jews and the Egyptians, Bunche declared, would "have a hell of a time getting off the island" without reaching an agreement. "We have our fingers crossed," he added with a grin, "and we'd have our toes crossed too, if we could...
Tenors Needed. A big 1948 weekend, say Jones & O'Riley, costs the college man anywhere from $35 to $60. Williams, like Dartmouth, is a skiing college: "You'll eat in ski pants, dance in ski pants, and if you ever get to bed, you might just as well sleep in ski pants." Amherst parties "are definitely of the beery, spur-of-the-moment variety"; a Holyoke girl once complained that "all they ask you for is to sing tenor in some quartet." Princeton parties are held "in rooms that seem no larger than a small station wagon...
More & more U.S. old folks are ending up in mental institutions. In 1922, only 9,229 patients over 65 were admitted to mental hospitals; in 1939, there were 18,227; in 1946 the figure had climbed to 29,987. These statistics look "appalling" to Dr. Riley H. Guthrie, who last week settled into his new job as a special mental hospital consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service...