Word: bostonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week postal inspectors nabbed George Apley's successor, got him indicted for using the mails to defraud "a certain class of persons, to wit, unmarried females." He was a tall, dashing, 40-year-old Back Bay Bostonian (real name he withheld from the police) and he was accused of having turned his correspondence with intellectual females into courtships, his courtships into loans to pay off a mortgage on a nonexistent warehouse in Fairfield, Conn...
...word "impeccable." What else he did there, no one can now recall. At Harvard he made no teams, was a member of no club. He is remembered principally as a fastidious dresser who wore stiff collars and a stickpin in his tie. He roomed with Horatio Nelson Slater, wealthy Bostonian, and in 1914 married Slater's sister Esther, a brunette beauty...
...older Pensacola, one of the Navy's other air training stations, cadet life is stricter and discipline more sternly professional. At Jax, military formalities are reduced to a minimum, and habits are more casual, friendlier. The thermostat for this temperature is Lieut. Commander Roger Cutler, a tall, ruddy Bostonian, who left the textile business to take command of the Cadet Regiment. Known out of his earshot as Rodge, Cutler goes at his duties with the directness of a businessman, impatiently waves aside red tape as he tries to get his boys another swimming pool twice...
Married. Leila Ernst, 21, Pal Joey ingenue; and Bostonian Stacy B. Hulse Jr., recent Harvard graduate; in Manhattan...
Harry Pulham is as Bostonian as the proverbial bean and the cod. He went to an exclusive private school, and, after his four years at Harvard, entered the investment business. He owns a summer house on the Maine coast and a winter house "in town." He sums up his whole political philosophy in one sentence: "I do not believe that either Mr. Roosevelt or Germany can hold out much longer and I confidently look forward to seeing a sensible Republican in the White House." On the whole his life is hardly distinguishable from those of his classmates...