Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Romance of Rosy Ridge (MGM) presents Van Johnson as a plumpish Barefoot Boy who wanders into Missouri's Ozarks and settles down with some folks named MacBean to help with the harvesting. Besides being useful around the house and barnyard, Van is quite a man with the mouth organ, the banjo, his larynx, and the ladies...
...MacBean (Selena Royle) is glad to have Van around, and young Lissy (Janet Leigh) makes eyes enough for a whole county's quota of farmers' daughters. Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell) is less easily won over by the stranger. The Civil War has just been fought, and feeling still runs high. Barns are being burned by masked riders; Yankees and ex-Rebels still won't help each other out with the crops, or even keep their tempers at a party. Old Man MacBean, a 100% Rebel, has a burning question: Are the stranger's britches blue...
...Thursday's meeting, at which Shapley will talk on "International Operations of Science," the members of SANSS plan to ratify their provisional constitution and sign up new members; but Uco Van Wijk '45, provisional head of the group, emphasized that the meeting was open...
...names of eight of his nine coaches and promised that the last will be named in the near future. The mentors already announced were Charley Mains, B.U.; Adam Elcewicz, Fordham; Frank Frisoli, Harvard; Thomas Curtin, B.C.; John Lindberg, Carnegie Tech; Dave Palmer, Hobart; Bill Newstetter, Pitt; and Dick Van Deusen, Williams...
...through, often without lunch, until 6. Her corner office is tiny (12 ft. by 15 ft.). Her desk has a bargain-basement clutter of sketches, snapshots and a teacup or two. For her big-spending customers, such as Mrs. E. F. Hutton, Mrs. Pierre du Pont and Mrs. James Van Alen, Sophie usually pops out of her office and plays salesgirl herself. She is quite a salesgirl, and can usually manage to charm the customers into wearing what she thinks they should. Before an adamantine customer who knows exactly what she wants, regardless, Sophie gracefully gives in. "I used...