Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Longer, Republican from North Dakota, who was almost barred from his Senate seat in 1941 on grounds of "moral turpitude" growing out of some old charges of corruption while he was governor of North Dakota. He has since made several Senators regret their votes to seat him. A lone wolf, incapable of cooperation, 63-year-old Isolationist Langer has probably introduced more trivial bills than any other Senator, once proposed that the U.S. withhold the $3,750,000,000 loan from Britain and use the money to provide urinalysis for U.S. citizens...
...light for football, Sherman made the fencing team, was pronounced by the Lucky Bag "supreme as a fusser [a genteel wolf] and yard reptile [a midshipman who squires the daughters of Annapolis captains and admirals]." He was also something of a teacher's pet. When a classmate asked a difficult question, the instructor would have Sherman stand up and reel off the answer. Sherman stood second in the wartime Class of 1918, which graduated a year ahead of its time. As the new ensign hurried off to war, the Lucky Bag summarized: "Forrest Percival has been the object...
...stood confidently before the piano on the stage of Manhattan's Town Hall to sing his first recital in eight years. His tenor was a little rusty, and he had not yet worked back to his former full-voiced power. But he sang the songs of Mozart, Beethoven, Wolf, Verdi with lyrical warmth and expressiveness that reminded some of Caruso indeed. He also sang the songs of Tchaikovsky, Glinka and other Russians and he reduced a house filled largely with Russian expatriates to bravos and tears...
...member of the class of 1929, he belonged to Psi Upsilon, the Elizabethan Club, the Pundits, and Wolf's Head while an undergraduate. He was also acting chairman of the Record, Eli's humor magazine...
...crisis. Her husband (Kent Smith) demands a divorce and custody of their little girl. Will Susan tell him that the child is not his? The picture flashes back to a bittersweet wartime romance between Susan, a nice girl from Boise, and an amiable Greenwich Village wolf (Dana Andrews). While she keeps her pregnancy a secret, unwilling to snare Andrews into marriage, he scribbles a voluntary proposal, then dies in an Army training accident. She recovers from the shock in plenty of time to hook unsuspecting Smith...