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Between bites of roast turkey, candied sweet potatoes and lettuce salad, they licked happy lips over the words of National Chairman B. Carroll Reece: "The verdict of the people in the recent election constituted a directive to both the legislative and executive branches." In effect, Carroll Reece was telling the President: get along with the G.O.P. or else...
Rather than let his swimmers roast off New Year's Eve in a Turkish bath, Hal Ulen, Varsity swimming coach, has made arrangements to have the facilities of the Indoor Athletic Building available for them during the last three, or possibly four, days of the Christmas recess...
...time the bouncy, bumpy Roedean Girl became a national byword, as British as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, and the butt of music-hall skits. She wore a bright-colored, shapeless wool Mother Hubbard called a djibbah,* talked in a full-voiced, fruity accent. The Roedean Girl knew how to play cricket and to "play the game"; she never "let the side down," never "sneaked," always "pulled her weight." In caricature and often in fact, she was a mannish, muscular, back-slapping bluestocking...
Sprat Spat. In Washington, Mr. & Mrs. John Wesley sat down to their first roast pork in weeks, quarreled over who should get the first slice, had at each other with carving knives, ended up in the hospital...
...used "depression" meant a depression like the one in the '30s. What they all did mean was simply that the U.S. economy, which had been controlled for so long, must undergo certain violent wrenchings as it was freed. Meat was typical. When decontrolled, roasts and steaks doubled and tripled in price to $1.20, and up, a pound. But when consumers refused to buy, prices came down. By last week, prime roast beef was down in the 55-10-65? range-and still falling. The demand for meat simply had not been as great, at high prices, as butchers thought...