Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipmates the President took no politicians, no bigwigs, no intimate advisers, but three men who were once described at the White House as "the only three fellows around here who don't give a damn about politics" -hearty Brig. General Edwin Watson, Captain Daniel J. Callaghan, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire-his military and naval aides, his doctor...
...Ross Hahn will be at the other guard spot with Rabbit Pearce at the other forward. Bernstein, Caput, and Schrieber are the Penn alternates...
...second annual meeting, the Mother-in-Law Association of Saks Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan department store, gave four judges-Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president...
...usual, both teams are undefeated in intercollegiate play, and today's match will settle national supremacy. Coach Jack Barnaby is leading a strong Crimson delegation to New Haven, headed by Captain Kim Canavarro and Jim Rousmaniere. John Palfrey, Bill Wood, Don Marvin, John Glidden, and Ross Lyell are other standouts...
...delegates to the Congress are: Edward Ames '42, David P. Bennett '42, Fleischman, Maurice S. Friedman '43, Edward B. Ginsberg, Jr. '43, Alan R. Gottlieb '41, Lawrence B. Grose '41, Samuel S. Hermann '40, Jonas N. Muller '40, Basil R. Pollitt '41, Walter K. Rosen '42, and Irwin Ross...