Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strangely Irked. When Hoover Sr. became Secretary of Commerce, Herter went to Washington as his personal assistant, then moved to Boston as co-owner and co-editor of Henry Ward Beecher's old magazine of opinion, the Independent. A Republican, Herter saw to it that the Independent championed the League of Nations and word-whipped Massachusetts' Isolationist Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge...
...worse than those who die at sea and get no benefit from the tradesmen, are those who want inexpensive funerals. One mortican describes how he did it for a friend. "I kept the rose shades on the lamps in the reposing room and saw to it that there were no bright lights in the chapel...
...game, which marked the dedication of Norwich's new Taylor War Memorial Rink, saw the Crimson in control throughout most of the contest. Only the excellent goal-tending of Cadet Captain Bruce Gillies, who was called upon to make some 40 saves in all, kept the game from turning into a rout...
Fischer led the Crimson scoring with one goal and two assists, while Balboni gained the remarkable distinction of scoring two goals while playing defense. Varsity Coach Cooney Weiland's major experiment of the evening saw forwards Bob Owen and Bob McVey transferred to first defense in an effort to give the Crimson more power and depth at these positions. The experiment was an unqualified success as Owen and McVey checked well and consistently broke up Norwich scoring attempts...
...What he saw in Madrid could only be wondered at--a girl practicing her piano the morning after a shell had passed through her house taking with it part of the living room wall and the top corner of the piano. "The will to live and laugh in this city of over a million people under fire, each person in constant danger, was to me a source of amazement." Langston Hughes is that kind of traveller who seeks after little, and, so, discovers much to wonder...