Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sert pointed out that the building will be set back from narrow Holyoke St., allowing a row of trees to be planted along the widened sidewalk there...
...your little lady allows as how attendance at the U.T. is non-U and not at all Ivy League, and she hopes you will flatter her sensibilities by emptying your pocekts for a single feature, just stuff her mouth full of popcorn and lead her down to the first row in front of the downstairs reserve section. I'll be there...
...they took on British-sounding names-Raymond Maynard, Charles Maitland, etc. Each brother had three or four addresses. Frequently a girl who paid her earnings to one brother lived in a flat owned by another. As the boys became more polished, they got themselves measured for Savile Row suits, and liked to keep a wary eye on the pavement patrols of their girls by cruising Curzon Street and Shepherd Market in Rolls-Royces. By the 1950s, the police estimated that at least 200 of London's most expensive prostitutes were Messina fillies...
...Toronto Maple Leafs. Last week, in the first all-Canadian hockey final since 1951, Montreal's Canadiens brought the saga to an end, defeating the Leafs 5-3 to become the first team in National Hockey League history to carry off the Stanley Cup four years in a row. But the Canadiens' remarkable accomplishment had to share top billing with the Leafs' improbable achievement in being there at all. Only two months ago the Leafs were sunk in the league cellar, with no prospects of getting...
...lions. Only five games from schedule's end, the New York Rangers were seven points ahead of Toronto and comfortably installed in fourth place, a ranking that secures a place in the Stanley Cup playoffs. But the Leafs, who had not won more than two games in a row all season, got the coach's message, streaked to five big wins, the mesmerized Rangers collapsed. In the N.H.L.'s tensest finale in years, the Leafs were trailing Detroit 2-0 when they heard over the public-address system that the Rangers had lost their final game...