Word: took
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Last week Manhattan's dignified Cooper Union put on a show whose purpose was to track the cat through history with the help of sculpture, painting and design. It took more than 250 separate items (in an exhibit entitled "Nine Lives") to spread out the story: from the Egyptians' poker-faced cat-headed goddess Bast to the Chesapeake & Ohio's pampered, machine-age Chessie...
Boutet de Monvel, the proud and gentle product of an age that now seems almost as remote as Charlemagne's, died in 1913, just before history presented some of his readers with the day he had in mind. "He took a long time dressing," one of his sons remembers, "and was always elegant, with a bow tie, spats, silk hat, a flower in his lapel, and always a cane...
...took Managing Editor Dale Stafford to keep young (26) Schermerhorn from taking a punch at 64-year-old Newsman Bingay. More than one Detroit newsman wished Stafford had not bothered. Big (205 lbs.) Malcolm ("Bing") Bingay is one of Michigan's best known citizens, but hardly one of its best loved. His autobiography is a revealing self-portrait of an editorial egocentric who made good...
Despite bad-tempered outbursts, Bing has usually shown a notable ability to get along with the boss. When John S. Knight bought the Free Press in 1940, he took control of the news columns away from Bingay, left him in charge only of the editorial page. Nevertheless, writes Bing solemnly: "John S. Knight [is] in my book the best of all publishers...
Negro Minister Graham took an optimistic, long-range view of the whole todo: "The net result is all to the good. Those of us who don't want to go along with the American way of life, which is the Christian way, should be shown...