Word: stanislaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seventeen of them, the hopeful applicant must bear the same name as the donor or one of his parents or even ancestors dating back as far as 1650. The William Stanislaus Murphy Fund, for instance is, "For the collegiate education of any young man or men named Murphy, who in the judgment of the Faculty, should prove deserving of this kind of encouragement...
...Chocolate Soldier (music by Oscar Straus; book by Rudolph Bernauer & Leopold Jacobson, "Americanized" by Stanislaus Stange and revised by Guy Bolton; produced by J. H. Del Bondio & Hans Bartsch) has tunes that can still send you out of the theater whistling. After almost 40 years, they have an Old World dash and melodiousness; even My Hero is not too much the worse for a thousand ship's bands and restaurant fiddlers...
...well-balanced war record of sea and shore duty, and with a smooth personality which fitted him well for dealings with the civilian arms of government. The boost up the ladder would raise Ramsey from two-star to three-star rank. The man he replaced, armorplated Admiral Richard Stanislaus Edwards, would go to the quiet Western Sea Frontier (headquarters in San Francisco...
After due seasoning on Wild West stories and his father's football yarns, Doc made his high-school football debut. A rival halfback ran straight over him for a touchdown. By the following year, when he transferred to St. Stanislaus Prep at Bay St. Louis, Miss., he knew how to tackle. On his 14th birthday, he played fulltime for the Stanislaus Rockachaws in New Orleans' Toy Bowl game...
...fortnight after the celebrated chat of Father Stanislaus Orlemanski with Joseph Stalin, the University of Chicago's Polish-born Professor Oscar Lange dropped in at the Kremlin, talked long and earnestly with the Soviet dictator. Afterwards he reported...