Word: 14th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, a cheery, talkative group of 2,000 men & women enjoyed a birthday party. They seemed to be having a fine time, in spite of tackling a routine banquet menu (grapefruit, chicken, peas, ice cream) without any preliminary cocktails. The celebration was the 14th anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous. The two anonymous founders, Bill, a Manhattan stockbroker, and Bob, an Akron physician, were there to tell about A.A.'s growth...
...plague-in earlier times called also the Black Death or the Pestilence-has been one of the great wholesale man-killers of history. Ancient Greece and Rome were helpless against it. In the 14th Century it killed 25 million in Europe, probably another 25 million in China and India. Boccaccio used the plague in Florence as a backdrop and excuse for his Decameron; 300 years later Pepys noted in his Diary many a detail of London's famed plague of 1665. One or two cases a year still show...
Civil Servant. In Holyport, Buckinghamshire, England, superstitious Postmaster James Thomas delayed delivering 13 congratulatory telegrams to newly weds Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lancaster-Burgess until he could compose a 14th...
...14th day, he ate the last of his candy. About then he also began to notice a blonde girl of about 16 standing near him. It was Mamie, "the first girl I ever loved back in Kentucky." She smiled at him and held out her arms. He wondered if she would rescue...
Last week in the bishop's palace (now a municipal museum), some of Limoges' ancient pride was reassembled. In these enamels of the 12th, 13th and 14th Centuries, the intricate colored plaques, chalices and crucifixes recalled Byzantine mosaics and Gothic stained glass. But the enamels had one element those two mediums lacked-a quality of much-in-little. That quality, which appealed strongly to the medieval mind, had made Limoges enamels sought after by men of the Chateaux and men of the Church...