Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courtesan, a friend of his great-uncle: "I should far rather make a slip with you than be on the right side even with the whole Academy-and [Anatole] France would, too. Indeed, it would be delightful to make a slip with you." His passion for the Creole never went beyond an "amour...
...story of how Henry went after everything and got nothing wears such a high polish that readers may scarcely realize it is essentially an old shoe: the same kind of satiric article Frederic Wakeman tried to fit on the advertising business in The Hucksters. Weidman's is the better fit. His boardroom oratory and office memoranda strike the ear with just the right sound of bursting fruit, and he can nail his types with the deftness of a bartender spearing a cherry with a toothpick. Says one of his newspaper executives, nodding toward his wife and suggesting another round...
Long Count. In St. Paul, Mrs. Jeanette Darling, suing for divorce, testified that her husband had not been home since he went off to Shelby, Mont, to see the Dempsey-Gibbons fight...
Felton, a Business School student who commutes to New York for his meets, went to London with the Olympic team last summer. He placed fourth in the hammer throw at that time...
...three matches that went to a decision, the visitors came out on top but the work of Dave Smith, Bob Abboud, Buddy King, Stan Thompson, and Howie Houston gave the Crimson its fourth win in five starts. For the first three, it was their first pin of the season...