Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...when duty called last spring in the form of an "approach" from Kensington Palace, Cronin gallantly undertook the job-at a salary of $2,200 a year-despite his unfavorable impression of his new master. Tony Armstrong-Jones's pants, in Cronin's opinion, were still much too "tight-fitting." Worse, his new master had not even the rudimentary good sense to stay abovestairs, but popped into the kitchen ("a place I do not expect to see masters") to ask how things were going. Stifling his outrage at this uncouth behavior, Cronin answered stiffly that he must hire...
...this has done much to restore faith in the school system. St. Louisans used to vote down school bond issues in helpless rage. But the board is now actively moving to overhaul the administrative system, and in next spring's election, Dan Schlafly hopes to get a reform majority for the first time. The way things are going, he will...
When Richmond fell in the spring of 1865, Jefferson Davis fled south to the hamlet of Danville, Va. There he held his last cabinet meeting in a local mansion, which proudly endures as "the last Capitol of the Confederacy." The old mansion has another use: it is the Danville Public Library. Last week that function was all but forgotten in a remarkable "integration" plan to keep readers with black skins off the premises...
Tenderloin stars Maurice Evans in the role of a minister who wishes to woo wastrels from the brothel they love. "It's a serious story," Abbott says. "The fashion of musical comedy has changed so much . . . you can't get away with the spring tra la routines wedged in between unrelated dialogue. The current term is 'integrated' musical comedy." An equally serious show about New York's Mayor La Guardia, "Fiorello," won Abbott a Pulitzer Prize this spring...
...talk about himself. He enjoys taking pretty girls out dancing and is especially expert at the cha-cha. Once widowed and once divorced, he has one talented daughter, Judith, and several grandchildren. He drives a new Cadillac and plays good golf for a beginner--he took it up this spring, leaving his tennis cronies looking for a fourth...