Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe's 70th anniversary fund committee will sponsor a Bonwit Teller "preview of spring fashions" at 5 p.m. today in the Copley Plaza ballroom. Proceeds from the show will go toward the Annex's current fund drive...
...bold primary colors; a good deal was literally bathed in baleful crimson light. But the thing had pace and a certain crude excitement, and Richard Whorf's usurper, limping of foot and swift of brain, was enjoyably malign. There was nothing subtle about any of it, and toward the end there was much that was strident; but if never anything more, it was a pretty good show...
...Weidman's is the better fit. His boardroom oratory and office memoranda strike the ear with just the right sound of bursting fruit, and he can nail his types with the deftness of a bartender spearing a cherry with a toothpick. Says one of his newspaper executives, nodding toward his wife and suggesting another round of drinks: "I have an old beat-up legman here, or legwoman, rather, who helps me with odds and ends around the house, such as bearing children, finding collar buttons, and making drinks for guests. How about...
When Armorel falls in love with Gian she devotes her life to improving him, passionately believing that under his simple-simian surface he has a heart of gold (which is true) and a fine intellect (which is not). She goes about her miscalculated mission with such iron ferocity that toward the end of the book some readers will want to liquidate her. They will not have to worry; Gian's nutty old father does that job admirably by slitting her throat, and Gian is convicted of the murder and hanged...
...bulk of this sum goes toward perfecting a gadget which promises to do away with the cumbersome iron lung. The new device, developed by Dr. James L. Whittenberger, assistant professor of Physiology, keeps a patient with paralyzed lungs breathing by stimulating certain parts of his brain with electricity...