Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This veteran (the story dates from 1945) was born in Flatbush, but spent a year in the Army stationed at Oxford. His accent was awesome, and intentional...
Murphy heard him mumbling as the doctors worked over him. "Say son," he said," have you ever heard of Professor Packard? He runs a speech remedial course. You ought to go see him." The veteran was enraged, but evidently thought it over. In three weeks, he had reverted to pure Brooklynese and a semblance of normality...
Shrewdly contrived, Trouble Along the Way goes all the way in trying to squeeze the last tear and laugh from its material. Nonetheless, it is high-toned hokum. Stealing the show from veteran Actors Coburn and Wayne is eleven-year-old Sherry Jackson in an artfully artless performance as Wayne's pert young daughter...
Until Joint Instruction was introduced in 1943, sections were, of course, conducted separately. According to Joseph Palamountain, instructor in Government and veteran of separate sections it's been "Quite a change; the girls were dungarees, curlers, and no makeup. It was something of a shock to see a girl in your section at a House dance and discover she actually had a face after...
...Marron, which also makes an annual football appearance, comes into Cambridge with a veteran team and a decisive 7 to 4 victory over a strong Yale team. Both the Yalies and the Gymnasts went South. The Crimson didn...