Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Innocent is sure to write continuously about problems like those of the Admissions Office. If enough good men turn down Dean Bender's job, it might be tempting for the University to remove this policy slot from the deanery-beanery and feed it in little pieces to sweet-breathed administrators. To avoid this, and insure that the job remain a key policy position, the Innocent might even ask the Dean of Harvard College to give up a job which, qua job, can often be of marginal importance, and a $125,000 home, to step into the Admissions Office, like...
...Manhattan's Blue Angel, a smoky, low-ceilinged saloon-for-sophisticates, she is delighting the customers with the songs and styles she learned as a child. In her high, sweet, reedy voice, the knowing can hear many echoes-of Ella Fitzgerald, whose records she bought as a child, of Harry Belafonte, who helped her get started in the U.S.-but she sings like no one else...
...Prayer for All People to a frenzy by a flow of incomprehensible oratory, a toss of his richly curled tresses, a wave of his 5-in.-long fingernails painted red, white and blue; collected enough money by the ritual of sitting in the "money well" or forming the "Sweet Daddy Grace Line" to afford a coffee plantation in Brazil, a chicken farm in Cuba, a cosmetic outfit that sells Daddy Grace Cold Cream ; exuded so much love of a sort that he barely escaped conviction for income tax evasion and violation of the Mann Act; of a heart attack...
...taking the part of the oppressed, so one cannot speak of true peace, but only of acquiescence and coexistence with the murderer . . . But [some] still stretch out their hands to the new Antichrists and even race to see who can first shake hands with them and exchange sweet smiles . . . Can a Christian confronted by one who massacres Christians and insults God smile and flatter? Can a Christian opt for alliance with those who prepare for the coming of the Antichrist in countries still free? Can we consider any distentione when the face of Christ once more is spat upon, crowned...
...worse, Maggie kept her secret from all but a few close friends. Then, two years ago, she went to Dr. Greydon Boyd, had a different type of operation. This was an effort to jar loose the locked bones of her right ear. While she worked on her last show, Sweet Love Remember'd, Maggie Sullavan was still sitting out the waiting period which would determine the operation's permanent success. Her plans for the future, insists Dr. Lempert, were not those of a woman bent on suicide. The very fact that she died with a script of Sweet...