Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policeman's job is becoming more and more a profession, the role of the Police Station more and more pervasive. But despite the record Harvard enrollment, student brushes with the Law have remained at a pre-war minimum and as far as duty around the Yard is concerned, W. S. Gilbert was all wrong. The policeman's lot is getting better all the time...
House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr.'s office staff proudly reported that since the boss took over in January he had had five marriage proposals, by mail, from complete strangers. But Bachelor Martin, who is 62 and lives in a hotel, was not having...
Only a handful of friends, relatives, Hearstlings and other servants last week moved through the great halls at La Cuesta Encantada (The Enchanted Hill), midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Hearst was up each day at 11 ("he has always kept morning-paper hours," says Son W. R. Jr.) to read the papers and his mail, write the lordly editorials and memos that kept a copy boy running back & forth to the castle's wire room. His editors get no chance to forget that he is still the boss...
Dinner (9:30 p.m.) is only rarely a banquet these days; sometimes there are only W. R. and Marion Davies. Oftener a few regulars show up, like Columnist Louella Parsons, Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, society writer of the Los Angeles Examiner. Their host eats heartily (favorite delicacies: cracked crab, pheasant or duck just barely heated), and keeps the table talk on a high plane. Risque stories are out; Hearst recently reprimanded a woman guest who cut loose with a mild "damn." Every night the inevitable movie begins at 11, and bedtime...
While it was at it, the committee also approved W. W. Waymack, Lewis L. Strauss, Dr. Robert Bacher and Sumner T. Pike as commission members, and Carroll Wilson as general manager...