Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton president also attacked critics who would "equate educational with industrial efficiency." He rejected the frequent proposal that colleges operate year-round, graduating students in only three years...
...lessons, paid higher and higher fees to win the privilege of attending parties and other extra functions at the school. After six weeks, she was persuaded to sign up for an $11,800 lifetime membership. One of the school instructors thoughtfully accompanied her home and to the bank to round up the payment. But with half her life's savings gone, Mrs. Lee became disillusioned, danced off to the police. Last week, in the third court case involving an Arthur Murray affiliate in two months (TIME, Oct. 6), the manager and two instructors of the Albany dancing school faced...
...patron offers to keep Gulley on a pension if only he will leave off the telephone calls. But the butler catches Gulley stealing a jade figurine from the patron's collection, so he is lucky to get out the kitchen door while the police are chasing round the parlor...
...love without the help of anything on earth; and that's real horse meat." "Please don't talk," said the nun, "you're very seriously ill." "Not so seriously as you're well. How don't you enjoy life, mother. I should laugh all round my neck at this minute if my shirt wasn't a bit on the tight side." "It would be better for you to pray." "Same thing, mother...
...Adamses, was about to embark on a U.S. tour, Marian fired off fair warning to her father in Massachusetts: "See to it that Boston snubs her off the stage." Marian's letters to papa were a Sunday ritual, and in them she re-created the Washington merry-go-round of her day with Pepysian verve and caustic charm. She could be gossipy ("The Hayes suffer much from rats in the White House who run over their bed and nibble the President's toes"), or just plain lethal ("Not until I had seen and heard Judge Drake...