Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Penitentiary is old enough to be remembered with horror by Dickens in his American Notes (1842). It was known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged their Christmas musicale. Sixteen pent-up voices serenaded The Little Man Who Wasn't There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written...
Inter-House debating will resume its second semester late in February, continuing through the spring. Sixteen debates are scheduled for that period, the same as last session...
...Senior Sixteen were taken into Phi Beta Kappa at the meeting. Eight members are chosen by the Society during their Junior Year, 16 during the first part of their Senior year, and 65 at Commencement...
First Love (Universal). Sixteen-year-old Deanna Durbin, Universal's sweetish nightingale, also happens to be its biggest box-office asset. Last week her studio faced a nerve-cracking crisis-Deanna Durbin, having unmistakably outgrown short skirts, must be shown to her public as a young lady receiving her first kiss. Could Songster Durbin hold her fans, who like to think of her as a wide-eyed child with a full-bosomed soprano, after that historic peck? For the thrilling ordeal Universal chose an ingratiating fairy tale about a singing orphan who loses her slipper, wins her prince...
...year-old ex-waitress, who is facing deportation to the British West Indies, where she has a husband and a sixteen-year old daughter, is being held at the Immigration Office in East Boston pending her hearing before the Federal Board...