Word: scarf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, the subcommittee had a guard on the door, in the person of Staffer Stephen Angland, to prevent Schwartz from taking any more of its property. Schwartz raised his arms above his head, turned to newsmen and cried: "These newspapermen are witnesses that I am taking only my coat, scarf and hat. May I take my wife's photograph from my desk, or this chocolate bar, which is a present for my five-year-old son?" Said Angland: "Please get out of here." Shrieked Schwartz: "I'll sue you if any of my personal property is missing." Then...
...that were not consolation enough, Pierre was summoned by Quitte ou Double Listener René Billères, Minister of National Education. Pierre showed up straight from his welding classes, a scarf and lumberjacket hiding his work shirt. The minister proposed a scheme to circumvent his own system, suggested that Pierre work with two specially assigned teachers to prepare for college entrance and practical lab work. Said Minister Billères: "You are free to accept or not." Chemistry Whiz Pierre needed no time for qualitative or quantitative analysis. "I accept," said he. "This will allow me to catch...
...cafe where they can calm down with a cup of coffee. The fraternal transport is now at its beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold; one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races down the street backwards, his scarf and topcoat wildly flapping in the wind, crying out in ecstasy, "Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord. Lord!" The unbroken tension of weeks--of a year and a half for some, has ended. Bicker is over at last, for them...
...George Gobel's place on Tuesday night, this good grey lady did not quite know what to do with herself. Touted as a "hilarious report on the suburbs," Suburban Revue got about as far out of Manhattan as Central Park. Host Alistair Cooke showed up in skimmer, foulard scarf and blazer, to talk about the wonders of aluminum (spelled A-1-u-m-i-n-i-u-m, Ltd.). Bert Lahr, a mighty available Jones around all channels these days, blinked and "poo-poo-pa-dooed" through some excruciating jokes ("Are you Ivy?" "It's crawlin...
...Tommy White packed his silk scarf, leather helmet and spurs (then Air Corps uniform items) and went to Peking as a language officer to study Chinese. This was a puzzling assignment that White still does not quite understand, but he made the most of it. He became proficient at Mandarin, even compiled a Chinese-English dictionary of military terms; he also got to know some White Russian refugees and studied Russian. Duly noted in his record, this helped get him assigned, at the age of 32, as assistant military attache at the U.S. embassy at Moscow...