Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buxom Swedish lasses publicly doffed their clothes to slip into scanty bathing suits in full public view. Later, a Swedish hostess was dumfounded when the adaptable middies, invited to take a dip in her private pool, promptly stripped to the buff and dove in. When she complained to a senior officer, he told her that the boys thought they were following the local custom. In Edinburgh, like their elder brothers in wartime, they had been greeted by street urchins calling "Any gum, chum?" Then came London...
...jail, Wright tried to commit suicide, and was sent to a mental hospital. The hospital treated him, decided that he was sane, and sent him back to jail. Thereupon his lawyer called in a top-ranking Pittsburgh psychiatrist. Dr. Yale David Koskoff, senior neurosurgeon at Montefiore Hospital, suggested a prefrontal lobotomy (brain nerve-cutting) to revamp Wright's "psychopathic personality." That was all right with the prisoner-and with the court...
Lowell House diners will have to continue wearing coats in the dining hall despite their petition asking for relief from these "sweltering summer days," Maurice M. Pechet, Acting Senior Tutor in the House, declared last night...
...Francis E. Townsend's 13-year-old vision of pie-in-the-sky was back again, as plain as mother's lemon meringue. Last week, 5,000 "senior citizens" stormed Washington for the first postwar national convention of the Townsend clubs of America. Without glasses, any one of them could see the vision of pensions for all citizens over 60. The trick was to make the 80th Congress...
...Little, senior in rank among the prisoners, had been put in charge of their mess, made answerable to the Japs for camp discipline and food supplies. Those who hated him said he was a little dictator. Said one of his accusers: "He loved rules; even Japanese rules." They accused Little of cultivating the favor of his Jap captors by being their camp informer. The darkest charge of all: as a result of his reports to his captor-bosses, an Army enlisted man was beaten to death and a Marine Corps corporal was starved to death by the Japs; others were...