Word: goodnight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comfortable busses, described last year as "passion pits," are rented for the occasion from the Grey Line. Langenthal says he has never had an accident nor arrived at Wellesley too late. Too late, that is, for a twenty-minute wait for a twenty-minute goodnight before the male constituency is rounded up for the homeward ride...
...parties. It was surefire when his songstress wife, with appropriate handwringing, began singing "I really can't stay . . . I've got to go 'way," and Loesser answered pleadingly, "But Baby, it's cold outside!" After that the pace picks up, with her reasons for saying "goodnight" getting sugar-coated neverminds, line by line...
Fast Friends. In Toronto, the University of Toronto newspaper reported a local shocker: the parents of a teen-age girl, eavesdropping on daughter's goodnight to her beau, came a-running downstairs when they heard her scream, discovered that the young lovers had got their dental braces tangled...
...Philip himself no longer had to be so circumspect. At a meeting of 6,000 British Legionnaires in Albert Hall last week, he turned to his betrothed as she sat in the royal box and loudly sang: Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major...
Coed Iris Alexander, a junior at the University of Wisconsin, had been to a campus party, after a football game. One of the boys she met there took her home, and they talked a while on the porch. When she said goodnight and stepped inside the door of her rooming house, her landlord told her to move out. To Landlord Arthur Rupe's way of thinking, he had good reason: Iris' escort was a Negro. A fellow roomer took Iris' side, and Rupe ordered her out, too. "A private home," said he, "is no place for inter...