Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mouth of the dingy alley next to her apartment house, a man in a long-visored cap sprang at her. He clawed for her shoulder bag, clubbed her on the head with a pistol, shot her in the back. She screamed three times and died in an ambulance ten minutes later...
Ryan dumped $500,000 into something he called the National Foundation for Good Government. It would scotch corruption not only in New York but elsewhere. He railed at Governor Tom Dewey for not investigating Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's administration. He trotted down to City Hall with ten questions for O'Dwyer. Their substance: Is Slot Machine Tycoon Frankie Costello the real boss of New York City...
Lady Mendl, 91, tireless international smart-setter, tried her own therapy when her doctor ordered her to bed for ten days. In a pink satin bed jacket and diamonds, she presided over several little dinner parties in her candlelit Hollywood bedroom. To small tables, her guests (Hedda Hopper, Clifton Webb, Fanny Brice, et al.) brought picnic baskets. Blooming under the treatment, Lady Mendl was ready this week to hop a boat for Europe...
Custom tailors got their annual pre-spring urge to name the ten best-dressed men in the U.S. Among the victors: Dean Acheson (who nosed out Harry S. Truman in the Government employee category), Clark Gable, Harold E. Stassen, and baseball's Lou Boudreau...
...Among other big Eastern women's colleges, Wellesley has always had women presidents, Bryn Mawr switched to them in 1893, Radcliffe has alternated. Mount Holyoke, after ten madam presidents, chose Roswell Gray Ham in 1937; Vassar got its first woman president in Sarah Gibson Blanding...