Word: angels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happiest observer of this cultural-financial comeback was one of the country's whitest-robed musical angels: chubby, mild-mannered Henry H. Reichhold (TIME, Dec. 18), underwriter of the Detroit Symphony's resurgence. A rich, German born manufacturer (Reichhold Chemicals Inc.) who has fiddled as a hobby, Angel Reichhold, 43, could now sit with more than usual pride in his usual box, congratulating himself that his solvent godchild was also a Manhattan-approved artistic success...
...centuries the millions of illiterate Indians had been ruled by caciques or headmen. Modern caciques adopted the title of "general," set up military despotisms. Central America, which separated from Spain in 1821, fell into five republics shortly after armed Indians revolted, led by a former pig-driver called the Angel Rafael. Ever since, the Ladinos had kept the little countries in turmoil with a meaningless, serial struggle between political ins & outs, usually labeled "Liberals" and "Conservatives...
Look Homeward, Angel. In Long Beach, Calif., Victor Peterson sued for the custody of his four children, claiming that Mrs. Peterson, fearful lest the coastal regions slide into the sea, had fled with her off spring to the sanctuary of a mountain belonging to an evangelist named Everett...
...wonder if the Glendale, Calif, sky pilot has ever read Paul Leicester Ford's The True George Washington. Ford tells us that on provocation George Washington "swore like an angel." When do ministers swear, if ever? I suppose, in the privacy of their own homes, to the dog, the wife and the kids...
...have known great English poets: Ernest Dowson died in my arms. . . . I held the young man . . . and for a moment, he seemed to catch his breath. 'You are like an angel from Heaven,' he said . . . but I knew that it was the end. . . . We placed pennies on his eyes, and later they were replaced with silver coins by a friend of the young poet. . . . That I, or any woman who was in the house, took the coins and went off to get drunk at the nearest bar . . . I am sure is not the case...