Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only the maverick American Veterans' Association-tax-conscious veterans who want pensions confined to soldiers who really got hurt-refused to jump into the trough. Stormed its National Commander Robert B. Luchars: "[The scheme comes from] big-pension lobbyists . . . whose tears flow ... at the suffering of training-camp heroes who never smelled gunpowder...
...guest on Information Please, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia recognized the ingredients of spaghetti sauce,* the duets in Tristan & Isolde, missed when he said he was New York City's 99th mayor (correct: 103rd, counting acting mayors). Encyclopedia and $25 went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from...
...tryin' to lasso you from every which way soon as you trot through the lines at that old barn called Memorial Hall. 'Course you'll want the Crimson lyin' on the stable step to take the blinders off yore eyes every morning, but don't let thim maverick 'Pooners stampede...
...judgment and scientific rigor of thought, adds that his friend knows ten languages, has long been associated with "leading persons in control of the economic, financial and political life in Europe," but "his official position obliges him to remain anonymous." Most readers will probably deduce Author Reveille as a maverick German economist...
...year after he wrote this lyric, William Guggenheim, 72, maverick brother of the copper tycoons, wrote a last will & testament that was even cornier. The will left nothing to his wife and child, split his $1,000,000 estate (Broadway's estimate) equally among four women-all his "protegees" at the time of his death last June. The protégées: Lillyan Andrus (Miss America of '29), Mildred Borst (Miss Connecticut of '30), Marialyce Rice, a Texas-born Ziegfeld beauty. The fourth beneficiary: his secretary, Florence Sullivan...