Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heary Beacon Hill dame surveyed Boston's historic Common Saturday evening. To a little girl who had just spilt a plate of beans on the historic Mall, she snapped, "You should be ashamed of yourself for making such a mess. Clean it right up." Apparently the spectacle of ten thousand people eating five tons of beans rubbled her sensitively...
...Columbia's Varsity Show the first freshman to be given the job. Herbert Fields, the son of vaudeville comedian Lew Fields, introduced them, and from then almost until Hart's death in 1943 the two worked together. From 1919 on Rodgers and Hart turned out more than a thousand songs, including an extraordinary number of hits, like "Thou Swell," "Ten Cents a Dance," "Falling In Love with Love," "Blue Moon," "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "Lover," and "Small Hotel...
...last four years Mrs. Baker has counselled more than six thousand married or engaged couples. Many of these pairs were distraught when they first visited the Longfellow Hall office. One husband summed up their state of mind: "If we sound confused, it is because we are confused. We don't know how to work out our situation...
...enthusiastic President went back into the gloomy old palace, where politicians and friends crowded around to greet him. In two hours, he talked to nearly a thousand people, embracing each one and calling each by his first name. Then, still fresh and lively, he spent an hour and three-quarters with the press. "The average U.S. citizen believes war is unavoidable," he said. "But come what may, we stand always loyal to the democracies." The U.S., he thought, was a great place, and he told in detail of what he had seen of TVA, Louisiana oilfields and Texas ranches...
...conversation just because Todd is around. He is still a member in good standing of the National Press Club, though no longer welcome at the Overseas Writers. (He also dropped out of a car pool after learning that the FBI was investigating his traveling companions.) Though he files several thousand words a day, Todd does not do much talking. Unlike the Secretaries of State whose every pronouncement he faithfully reports to Moscow, Larry Todd has a clause in his contract that forbids him to speak for publication...