Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have written sooner to thank you for Jake Brackman's sketch of me but I have had my hands full trying to persuade by tailor not to sue the CRIMSON for libel. I have never owned, or even been tempted to rent, a suit "with wide stripes and wider lapels." I must also, in justice to past employers for whom I retain a deep and grateful affection, correct his story that I started my own news-letter because I was "tired of researching news that city editors wouldn't print." On the contrary I started my Weekly...
...Before I had read your story, I thought that the bomber pilot in Dr. Strangelove was an exaggerated characterization. Thank you for pushing the ejection button on my fool's paradise...
...think my country'd thank me in some large or even puny form...
Bergman and the cast sing two other marvelous tunes: one ("Let Us All Thank Satan for His Brew") is a highly sucessful imitation of a Negro spiritual. The other ("Crushing the Grape") hits with very clever lyrics and a snappy honky-tonk melody. Of the rest, only "My Fellows I Am Minded" is definitely second-rate...
...next day Vellucci phoned the settlement house worker; she phoned the executive. The settlement house got a new stove, and a week later, Vellucci got an appreciative thank you note...