Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reduced to a matter of registration and the word romance is becoming, in common parlance, equivalent to harlotry, the clean courtship, the honorable decision, the unwillingness to yield principle to personal satisfaction stand out in pristine beauty, and all who were engaged in what could have been an ugly pursuit of passion will be glorified among their own people as restoring the virtuous qualities of duty and respect...
...sort of satiric-strip characterization. There is a delightful absurdity about him, whether in the family scenes, or with the lackeys he yells for "just to see if they heard him," or in his famous enraptured discovery that he has been talking prose for 40 years. In his pursuit of the graces and his groping for quality, he employs a battalion of instructors, only to go on dancing like an elephant and fencing like a paralytic. For his monomaniacal follies, he is everywhere guffawed at and everlastingly gulled...
...first, third and fifth notes of a chord. These and other minutiae are among the many observations and conclusions of Mr. and Mrs. John David Gill, in the course of leisurely strolls around the U.S. and Canada. By this month the Gills, a Philadelphia couple, had been in pursuit of their favorite pastime-walking hand in hand through the world-for five years, and enjoying every minute...
...killer has eluded its pursuers. From Pharaonic times until this century, the medical profession took a fatalistic attitude that most heart disease was inevitable. Today, a health-and youth-conscious U.S. wants to believe those doctors who insist that no disease process is natural at any age. The pursuit of the killer is proceeding with greater speed-and hope-than ever...
This week top men in charge of that pursuit, 2,000 American heart specialists, met in New Orleans at the 28th scientific convention of the American Heart Association to tell each other how they were doing. An early order of business was installation of a new president. Their choice: Dr. Irvine H. Page, now of Cleveland, at 54 one of the country's leading detectives on the trail of the killer...