Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Football at Harvard, Harlow said, is on the upsurge. When he came here in 1935, someone ran up a pennant after a Yale touchdown reading, "Who cares?" That, he said, simply isn't done anymore...
Married veterans, if they were fortunate, got themselves a room or several rooms in nearby homes, such as those of the Faculty. Others are living in the inevitable Quenset Huts several blocks from the center of the University. How rough this life is or isn't varies undoubtedly with the individuals concerned, but a definite ray of light was east by a New Yorker correspondent recently, who on passing a Quenset Huf and "glaneing through a window, saw a maid in apron and lace-cap briskly shaking up cockfails...
...mother was to blame," remarked Billy. "She didn't allow him to be independent." A boy named Caleb thought the G.I. had deserted too soon: "If it had come to a showdown, the soldier might have shown more courage than he thought he had." John guessed: "Fear isn't always bad. Sometimes it's good. It makes you more alert...
This time Gimbels started it. At Macy's annual stockholders' meeting, somebody asked president Jack Isidor Straus a $64 embarrasser: was there any truth in stories that Gimbels was capturing "leadership" from Macy's? Straus replied weakly, "I hope there isn...
...efforts to clear himself of a murder while simultaneously busting open a huge fraud having to do with forgeries of great art masterpieces. This is the sort of thing that Humphrey Bogart shows up in every year or two, to everybody's huge delight, but the aging O'Brien isn't quite in the same league when it comes to evading cops and prowling in dark rooms...