Word: vies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Gold Coast mansion, Randolph Hall, used to vie with Claverly for the honor of attracting football players and social elite. Now the western part of Adams House, Randolph in the second decade of the century had everything Claverly could offer--plus a sunny corner on the first floor used as a breakfast room. Panelled in stained oak, this "special cafe" served light breakfasts until noon "to those whose drowsiness keeps them abed after hours...
...less successful contemporaries, the Air Force's Psychologist E. Paul Torrance shed some light on the top MIG killers. The jet ace's outstanding characteristics: aggressiveness, self-confidence, an almost fanatic devotion to flying. The typical ace was born into a large family, had to cooperate and vie for parental attention with his brothers & sisters, was seldom coddled. As a youngster he played hookey from school or drove cars just to see if it could be done, strove to win at such rough contact sports as football and boxing. Says Torrance: "The jet ace. when...
Harvard will probably be watching from the outside this afternoon. When Yale and Boston University-the two top track teams in the East this winter-vie for honors in the first annual New England Relays. The first race will start at 1:30 in Soldiers Field...
...highbrow writers, a handsome, American-born Italian princess nearing 72 is the closest thing to a patron saint in the world today. When they visit Rome (and that is the thing for them to do these days), they vie for invitations to her home, a gloomy Renaissance palazzo with an irresistibly highbrow address: 32 Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops). There they get fruit juice and cakes, plenty of rarefied talk about writers and writing, and lots of sympathy. The Princess Marguerite Caetani's interest in their work is as genuine as her 800-year...
...Paris and amour had not changed since the golden nineties (although one line in the song admitted: "Actually, I don't believe any of it"). Then came Edith Piaf, so thin that she was barely visible through the nightclub smoke, with an occasional sentimental number (La Vie en Rose), but in reality a siren of disillusion, a kind of existentialist among chanteuses. But Patachou is almost a rural reactionary, who goes back to a sturdy, bucolic France that persists beneath the phony Parisian sparkle...