Word: room
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together, sleep in dormitories, earn $1 pocket money after the first week, $2 after the second, and eventually up to $15. There is an Alcoholics Anonymous group at the center, so that the men can fight together against the temptations of rum. There is a recreation room on the second floor with a television set, which eliminates one excuse for going to a neighborhood bar. Life's derelicts are put to work mending old clothes, fixing broken furniture and radio sets-and get back, if all goes well, on the road to self-respect and usefulness...
...deeply religious but not a puritanical family, in which father Pugmire was second in command. In whatever dining room the family happened to be using along its gospel travels, father Pugmire always hung the motto: "Christ is the head of this house, the unseen guest at every meal, the silent listener to every conversation." Family prayers were said every morning and every night. Serious-minded Ernest read to improve himself, learned to play the euphonium. Occasionally he used his fists capably when the boys in the neighborhood taunted him about his parents being Salvationists...
...Respectability. He leads what he calls a "very humdrum life" in the five-room frame house the army furnishes him in Ramsey, N.J., and rides to his 14th Street office every morning in the Buick sedan which the army allots him, behind a Dutch chauffeur who escaped from a German slave labor camp...
...powered tax consultant, Claudette Colbert spends her days poring through income-tax forms looking for a home-loving rich husband. To keep her in his employ, George Brent sneaks into her files some data on wealthy Robert Young, who is in on the conspiracy to discourage her. The drawing room dither that follows shows everyone falling for Claudette, but nobody very happy about it. Claudette, who appears to be slumming in her farce role, allows herself to be photographed catching a wrestler in her lap, getting belabored with mackerel and judoing Robert Young over her shoulder...
...Search. In New Haven, Conn., young Vito Manga, chased by police to the roof of a nurses' dormitory, explained how he had happened to be lurking on the fire escapes outside the building: he "was looking for a men's room...