Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieut. Colonel Chet Hansen, an ex-newspaperman who planned to leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host of other U.S. postwar memoirs, few have come into print without a touch of ectoplasmic eloquence. Two recent exceptions to the rule: General Dwight D. Eisenhower's and General George Kenney...
...triumphant train ride from Boston to Cleveland, Veeck, normally a careful drinker, broke a rule and got tipsy enough to start squirting champagne at his players. They grabbed bottles and began squirting back. When one woman got her dress spoiled Veeck ordered: "Buy her a new $250 one." After 20 cases of champagne and ten cases of bubble ink were gone, he took a look at his wine-soaked ballplayers and ordered new suits for them all. "Greatest guy in the world," everybody said...
...Civil Service Commission, in issuing its first rule in 1884, recognized the right of every government employee to freedom of thought by stating, "no question . . . shall be framed as to elicit information concerning the political or religious opinions of any applicant...
...push button" case, happily for Harvard, is the exception and not the rule. Placement figures have always been high, and if anyone regrets the existence of the Business School it's probably the firms that can't offer high enough salaries to attract the Harvard men into their organizations. Most banks and accounting firms can't afford starting salaries much over $250 per month, while the average company operating through the School's Placement Office these days is offering from $250 up to $350 a month as a starter...
...general rule the varsity football team's annual post season banquet is a private affair. No members of the press are invited, and no statements of what was said are given out. This year, if we may judge by the three inch front page headlines in the Boston Traveler, somebody talked...