Word: southbound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been farming since he was old enough and he was for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Said Christopher proudly, turning Short's mule around: "I invite you all to look at another Missourian who has looked for long hours at the north end of that southbound mule...
...Stockholm's Central Station the Czech ice hockey team lined up to take the southbound train. The players had just won the world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...
...fleece a pretty, not very bright war widow (Joan Caulfield). Their plot is to persuade the lady to finance a youth center as a war memorial to her hero-husband-or rather, as a paid-up charity benefit for themselves. Their dastardly scheme is clicking along like the southbound express when it develops a hotbox. Payne is far too successful as a lady-killer. He has a hard time convincing the widow that he is not part of the memorial package he is trying to sell, and he cannot escape the relentless pursuit of a gun moll named Tory (Shelley...
...Mapes, 86, onetime president of Brooks Brothers, Manhattan's elegant, tradition-draped men's clothing store; in Manhattan. In March 1888, on the day of the Big Blizzard, Mapes-then a Brooks clerk-made the day's only sale: a pair of white flannels to a southbound vacationer...
...frosty visions of Alexander H. Rice '98, professor of Geographical Exploration, are ever effected, southbound vacationists may pass by Florida's crowded and expensive resorts and recline in peace and quiet in the "wide open spaces" of Antarctica...