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Word: tanguay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home Fires. In Nashua, N.H., a woman telephoned Chief Albert L. Tanguay to report a fire, was told he was out but that it was not necessary to give him the alarm in person, replied, "Yes, I know. I'm his wife. I just wanted him to know it was his house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...still getting kicked in the shins by boys," recalls Mrs. Eileen Archibold, a girlhood friend, "one of them gave Mamie a snakeskin. It was a real honor." Mamie made regular Saturday streetcar pilgrimages to the Orpheum Theater to drink in vaudeville performances by Blossom Seeley, De Wolf Hopper, Eva Tanguay, Harry Lauder and other such glamorous figures. She "dressed up" in adult finery at every opportunity. Boys swarmed around the Doud house, and Mamie fed 'them cookies and Welch's grape juice, and allowed them to play at a pool table in a basement game room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The President's Lady | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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