Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...developed that Vaughan's crony, John Maragon, and two other representatives of the Verley Co. had managed to go to Europe on a business trip, during the period in which the freezers were being delivered, in an Army transport plane. The subcommittee's releases pointedly noted that on the return trip Maragon had attempted to smuggle expensive perfume oils into the country under his false declaration that it was champagne for the White House, and had never been prosecuted...
...last week's ceremonies they announced their choice. Bucknell's ninth president will be ex-Maine Governor Horace A. Hildreth (Bowdoin '25), whose four years in office were distinguished for Yankee thrift in government and for a colorful State Council meeting held on a hunting trip in the Maine woods. Hildreth, who had abandoned politics when Margaret Chase Smith edged him out of the 1948 senatorial race, was pleased as punch with his new job, endowment drive & all. Said he: "Private institutions of learning today must be made self-supporting and operated within their budgets or face...
Alfred E. Lyon, board chairman of Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., returned from a European trip last week with some eye-popping estimates of the market for American tobacco-providing a way could be found around the dollar shortage, possibly by barter deals (e.g., U.S. tobacco for French cigarette paper). Item: "Workingmen in England spend a quarter of their average weekly earnings of ?5 on cigarettes...
...year-old son Jimmy. An epileptic and a problem child who refuses to believe anything his tutors tell him about basic trends or the continuity of Western culture, Jimmy wears his mother down until she opens the nursery door, lets him go along with Divver on a trip to the Polish Corridor in the summer...
Like an amateur detective, Henry searched his wife's room. In her diary he found an entry: Dined C. D. evening. Party. Nuff Said. To Henry, Nuff Said meant wickedly delightful. Reveling in his betrayal, Henry manufactured situations to throw Madge and Diver together. He faked a business trip and returned unexpectedly to find somebody's cigarette in Madge's bedroom (the window cleaner's, she said). In a little notebook he carefully wrote down all his "evidence...