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...match her auburn hair. She refused to hire a chauffeur, she announced, because she couldn't find one who drove fast enough. She invited the U.S.C. football squad to scrimmage with her on her lawn-at midnight. She privately bathed in imported perfume, publicly pondered whether to succumb to the ardor of Director Victor Fleming or Gary Cooper, until indecision brought on a nervous breakdown. A jilted Yale football player who slashed his wrists was given a sanity hearing and released after he told the court that Clara had kissed him so forcefully that his lips ached...
...robust six-footer, beginning to succumb to a follicle defoliation and a corpuscle accumulation, Coffin radiates a certain bon vivant, I'll-lick-any-man-in-the-house love of live. Whether charging long at full speed, cracking a joke, or intently explaining his latest scheme to some vaguely conspiratorial group, his leg slung over the side of the armchair, this exuberance oozes from...
...para doxes." Since Judaism is predicated on man's right to be free, said Katz, "I can not concede - no matter what sets of statistics or failures or problems are set before us - that Jewish existence, which has survived and flourished in adversity, is to succumb in freedom...
...would urge," Chernoff warned, "that people who are prone to this sort of , particularly those with exams up, resist the desire to laze under the , lest they succumb to the 'green...
...papers carry ads, and the International Labor Press Association keeps a close watch on those that do particularly those that may succumb to an old labor press racket of shaking down businessmen for hefty contributions in the form of phony ads. As one safeguard, the I.L.P.A. demands that ads be confined to goods and services within reach of the papers' readers Over the last decade the I.L.P.A. has expelled 16 papers for improper advertising: a jewelers' union paper, for example, which ran ads for yachts and steamship boilers. It has also effectively ended another racket in which...