Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of "a perverted farmyard beast. He is too young in years for cynicism-or resignation-to have slashed its mark across his face, and therefore it has a beautiful, candid stupidity." He sings from 1 p.m. to 11, spends more than half of what he earns on supper, then sings until 2 a.m. before hopping the bumper of the last tram. He is six years old. ¶ Victorita is 17 and well built. The boy she loves has TB and lies in bed all day long. He warns her not to kiss him or she may catch his disease...
When undergraduates signed board agreements last week, few worried beyond the probability of chipped beef on toast for Sunday night supper. Officials of the dining halls were no more farsighted. As a result of this double myopia, most students during the year will be paying full price for meals they never taste...
...There is no place in my kind of life for a wife," Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy used to say. "I can't work at politics if I have to call home every half hour and if I can't stay away from supper when I want to." Next week in Washington's St. Matthew's Cathedral, Bachelor McCarthy, 43, will make a place in his life for tall, auburn-haired Jean Kerr, 29, "the most beautiful girl" at George Washington University in 1945 and for four years a research assistant in McCarthy...
...wanted permission to see some old friends and henchmen, and when this demand was rejected, Mossy announced to the captain of the guard that he was going on a hunger strike. "I will fast to death," he vowed. Mossy dramatically refused his breakfast and his lunch. But by supper-time-to the relief of the government-he was bawling for food. "I have only been able to preserve my physical powers with strong food," said the man who ruled Iran for 28 months, mostly while encased in pajamas, and lying on a cot. "I must eat three roast chickens every...
...wind. He flew just off the shore at 50 feet above the water, and when he finished he did a triumphant barrel roll to entertain the beach sitters. The Royal Aero Club announced that he had broken the record, but Airman Duke was not satisfied. After an early supper of cold roast beef, he made four more runs. His average speed of 727.6 m.p.h. exceeded the previous record (made by U.S.A.F. Lieut. Colonel William Barns-TIME. July 27) by considerably more than the 1% required for a new official record...