Word: roosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the list of Fogg's children is long and noteworthy, its guardians are even more impressive. Rulers of the roost and general patron saints are the members of the Visiting Committee appointed annually by the Board of Overseers. Chaired by Winthrop Aldrich, president of the Chase National Bank, the committee this year consists of the usual variety of collectors and scholars, including such notables as Robert Woods Bliss, former ambassador to Argentina; David E. Finley, director of the National Gallery; Everett V. Meeks, chairman of the Fine Arts Department at Yale; and Charles R. Morey, chairman of the same...
...lively, jump-loving clientele to provide for. And don't think Frankie can't play slow music well. I heard him do the blues last week, and when it was over the customers were just babbling incoherently in admiration. For them he was the cock of the roost, the salt of the earth, the cream de la cream...
...from the torture hideout by having him, though blindfolded, scratch the door jamb in departing, count the steps going down to the car, recall the turns, a dip in the pavement, a stop-&-go signal, the sound of a calliope, etc. All these well-noted clues come home to roost when he goes over the ground a second time...
These words, written in 1937, came back last week to roost on their writer, apostolic Joseph P. Lash, onetime boss of the left-wing student union. They also brought uneasiness to the U.S. Navy. For 31 -year-old Joe Lash, having split with his pinko friends, had shucked his antipathy for war. He had applied for a commission in the Naval Reserve...
...staff of the Chicago Daily News took time out one night last week for an impressive collective binge to honor a newshawk come home to roost after 22 months on the battlefronts of World War II. Recipient of this kudos was red-faced, balding Robert Joseph Casey, quick of mind and ample of girth, who has been a fair-haired Newsboy since 1920. His standing on the News is such that when his boss, Colonel Frank Knox, congratulated him on a series about the war, he amiably remarked: "I'm glad you like them because they cost you about...