Word: bostonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ober's several blocks away. Some of the waiters, who have themselves been part of the scenery for twenty years or more, are disappointed that he is not planning to take out the old-fashioned, unupholstered, narrow booths. But John Cocoris, immaculate, white-haired, and clear-eyed, a prominent Bostonian, member of countless committees, sometimes called "the King of the Greeks," did not make his fortune by accident. He knows that the Athens without its atmosphere would be like a ship without a sail...
...title role; Edna Best as his wife and Percy Waram as a brandy-muzzling relative are effective; Paul Harvey is excellent as the Worcester girl's forthright father; and Peggy Cummins (who won and then lost the lead in Forever Amber) is a very pretty though not very Bostonian daughter. The real star of the show is an ex-Quiz Kid named Vanessa Brown who, as the timid cousin Richard Ney doesn't want to marry, suggests an early Janet Gaynor or a younger Ingrid Bergman...
...citadel of Unitarianism). The occasion: one of six consecutive evening meetings addressed by such outstanding religious liberals as Dr. John Haynes Holmes and Hungary's Bishop Alexander Szent-Ivanyi. At this Unitarian equivalent of a "preaching mission," tall, 52-year-old Liberal van Paassen gave his staid Bostonian audience no opportunity to doze. If liberalism is indeed the devil, the devil is what he gave them. For a full hour and a quarter he sawed the air and pounded the pulpit in defense of human progress and the early perfectibility of man. Excerpts...
...once more a director of corporations, he makes weekly trips to New York but, like many a rock-ribbed Bostonian, so arranges things that he does not have to stay in the alien city overnight...
...auto he aptly describes as "racy and low, black and sleek." The irreverent description volunteered by a Bostonian on Tremont Street, however, was, "What the hell is that...