Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baldwin, Robert Hamilton, Render. George William, Birckhesd, Godfrey Malbens, Brager, A. Stanley, Jr. Brooks, Peter Albert, Byrne, James Jay, Delafield, Frederick Prime, Jr., Flemming, Joseph Peter, Jr., Jaffe, Henry Zevi, Kerr, John Grinham, Lyach, John Dee. McCallum. Duncan Howard, Maroni, Edward Walsh, Osborne Charles Cabot, Otis, Lauren Frederic, Sewyer, Alan Frederick, Jr., Schaffer, Louis Hatzler, Spence, William James (Captain), Thomas Richard Henry, 3d Yost, Edward DuRoss, Keller, Donald Verne (Manager...
...that a civilization, like any other living thing in evolution, retains the shrunken vestiges of once-vital organs which no longer serve much real purpose, and only cause trouble if they try to. Take for example, in 20th Century U.S. civilization, the father of a bride. Take specifically Mr. Stanley Banks of 24 Maple Drive, Fairview Manor, a vestigial organ in a perfect state of preservation...
Hoarse Talk. The withering-away of Stanley Banks began the moment his daughter Kay told him that she was engaged. " 'Well, to begin with,' he gasped a little hysterically, 'who the hell is this Buckley anyway, and where the hell does he come from-and who does he think is going to support him? If it's me he's got another guess coming. And who in God's name...
Chaste Miracle. After that, Stanley Banks must have withered fast, because his family scarcely noticed him at all for the next few months. He was always somewhere around, though-in his wife's way, under the florist's feet, beneath the caterer's contempt-with his hand in his wallet and his heart in his mouth...
When it was all over, Stanley Blanks slogged wearily upstairs through the confetti; there, Mr. Streeter suggests, he may have got a saving brace on himself. For in the bathroom wash basin, chaste as a bride, stood the last, miraculously intact bottle of champagne...