Word: uprightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold J. Laski, Britain's brilliant, bucktoothed, left-wing economist, plunged five flights without getting out of bed when a Nazi robomb wrecked his hotel. The bed landed upright. Occupant Laski: unhurt...
...that did not tire me physically was considered one of the 'toughest' jobs we have for women . . . riveting on the upright wing jigs. But I loved that...
...knew his small towns, with their "Four-Flush Drummers from Chicago and St. Louis, smoking Horrid Cigars and talking about the Percentages of the League Teams." Before World War I thousands quoted the fable of the two sisters, upright Louella whose "Features did not seem to know the value of Team Work" and Mae, "short on Intelligence but long on Shape." Louella worked in a hat factory, and every Saturday night the-boss "crowded three dollars on her." Beautiful Mae married a wheat speculator, moved into a Sarcophagus on the Boulevard, hired Louella for $5 as Assistant Cook. (Moral: Industry...
...biggest news of interest to all you really hakes is the announcement by the Social Committee (all honest, upright, social-minded grafters) that a monster picnic and general conclave will be held a Saturday, 3 June at a location as unannounced. There are a few special activities under consideration. The day will be a complete one, with picnic, swimming, and then to top it all off, an evening of dancing. The price will be as low as possible. Transportation will be taken care of by the committee. Speaking of Logistics, Don Brown, of "Weasel" fame, is planning to make...
Martha Stevenson Kemp Mature, blond ex-wife of Swingster Hal Kemp and Victor ("Beautiful Hunk") Mature, arrived in Manhattan from Palm Beach with a bump on her head. According to the New York Journal-American's society page, she had been jarred awake in her sleeping car, sat upright, "rapped her lovely sconce" on the upper berth...