Word: singleton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last four leap years the Winnipeg Tribune had listed Garnet Coulter among the city's most eligible bachelors. He looked like a fixture. A man who enjoyed duck hunting and poker sessions with the boys, he was thought to be an impregnable singleton. Besides, Garnet Coulter, mayor since 1942, had a big city...
Provost Buck announced yesterday the appointment of Charles H. Singleton, at present Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins, to the position of Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures...
Have any of your other readers called attention to the remarkable resemblance which John Singleton Copley's portrait of 18th...
Inevitably, the chief hero of Flexner's book is Boston's John Singleton Copley, who made an art out of the craft. His stepfather died in 1751, and Copley at 13 had somehow to support his mother and infant halfbrother. Though portraiture was built on stylistic tricks and flattering poses of which he knew nothing, young Copley decided that...
Sidney Bechet, who is 49 but looks older, has delivered the same two-beat jazz over half the U.S., in London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow. With his pals, including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Zutty Singleton, he has played it on nearly 100 records. Experts have named him on their all-star bands. But he hasn't made a fortune...