Word: adams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though not claiming to have got everything right, I have historical justification for my guesses as well as my facts: for example, the marriage-night fiasco can be deduced positively from a variety of lesser sources and negatively from the ideal account of Adam and Eve's honeymoon in Paradise Lost...
Born. To Prince Franz Josef II, 38, ruler of the tiny (65 sq. mi.), neutral Principality of Liechtenstein; and Princess Georgine, 23, blond, onetime Austrian countess; their first child, a son; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Name: Johannes Adam Pius. Godfather: Pope Pius...
Three years ago this month four of Adam Gimbel's descendants journeyed to the mellow, elm-shaded town of Vincennes, Ind. (pop. 18,228). There they commemorated the 100th anniversary of the opening of Peddler Adam's wondrous "Palace of Trade," with the prediction: "The best 100 years lie ahead." Last week the Gimbel mercantile dynasty proudly ended its best year. The gross for 1944 was estimated at an alltime high of upwards of $190 million. Result: Gimbel's, in fourth place in 1942, is now the leading metropolitan department store chain...
...Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 35, Manhattan's first Negro Congressman-elect, who preaches hellfire in a gates-ajar collar to his flock at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and kisses the womenfolk in the congregation afterward, ran into parsonage trouble. Mrs. Powell, a onetime nightclub performer, sued for separation after eleven years of marriage, charged Pastor Powell with "infatuation" for another nightclub performer. Broadway wiseacres immediately identified the parsonage-wrecker as round-eyed Pianist Hazel Scott, famed in café society for blending boogie-woogie with Bach. Asking the court to grant her $100 a week temporary alimony...
...Latin American circles were abuzz with an acid anecdote last week. A Peruvian surgeon and a Venezuelan architect (so the story ran) were dining with two men from the U.S. State Department. They discussed whose profession was the oldest. "Mine," said the surgeon, "God created Eve out of Adam's rib . . . by a surgical operation." "Mine," said the architect, "God first created the world out of chaos . . . the work of an architect." The two State Department men kept mum. "And what do you say?" the Latin Americans finally asked. Said one of the State Department men: "We were wondering...