Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said an Agriculture Department official, throwing up his hands: "You can't be for sin, and that's what they make it out." Making it out best was Christine Stevens, president of Manhattan's Animal Welfare Institute and secretary-treasurer of the hard-lobbying Society for Animal...
Women's colleges, luncheon clubs, waistlines, and bank accounts got bigger. Madison Avenue, in a Brooks Brothers and button-down salaam to the Little Woman and her big roller pin, committed the ultimate betrayal of privacy every TV evening: the advertising grab-bag of under-arm deodorants, living bras, toilet...
Shall I tell you of the other ones? The squat little man with the crew-cut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural fo three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to...
Citation: "You had to earn your way through college as a waiter in the Men's Residence dining hall . . . Your success up to that point and since may be cred ited not only to the beckoning opportunities which the American way of life provides but also to the dynamic...
Family gatherings are generally pretty uncomfortable at the Duvals'-the night of Pa's birthday, for instance. Ma bakes him a big cake with 45 candles and gets presents for all the kids to give him, but when Pa turns up he's in a bad mood...