Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caught with an empty gas tank"). It has articles on how to run a roadside vegetable stand, how to serve baked beans, why old nails and spikes should be saved (for cash), how to make candles, dresses, how to avoid food poisoning. As of old, it records that "Ann Bloomer introduced the bloomer on Jan. 2," that "wolves kill 3 at St. Paul [on Nov. 18], 1891," that John the Baptist was separated from his head...
...Mary Ann (later Marian) Evans (later George Eliot) was one of the homeliest women who ever wrote a first-rate English novel. She was also one of the most affectionate. For many years she looked for a man who would prefer character to beauty and in Publisher John Chapman she thought she had found him. This episode, overlooked by John W. Cross in his official Life of George Eliot, was resuscitated last fortnight to the delight of literary gossips when Chapman's diaries were published with a lively, 119-page introduction by Gordon S. Haight...
Hedy Lamarrs and Ann Sheridans may come and go, but Dietrich will star forever. Her latest, "The Seven Sinners," is a cinema "Panama Hattie" with a Malayan locale, minus the fifth column and Ethel Merman and plus a liberal sprinkling of the Navy. Marlene, just as alluring in the part of a honky-tonk songstress as ever she could have been in her pre-Hitler Berlin musical comedy days, makes up for the loss of Ethel...
...effect limited to looting. London's crime-of-the-week was a strange mercy murder: A. R. P. Worker James Miller, 45, garroted his mother, Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Miller, 74, to spare her further misery in sleeping crouched on tube steps. He explained: "I did it to save her being dragged around to the shelters. She was suffering." While food-profiteering also rose, a new racket appeared, as nifty as it was heartless. Early in the day, racketeers' stooges plant bundles of rags to simulate blanket rolls along 20 or more sleeping spaces in tube stations, patrol them...
...feeling. Doe-eyed Lucille Ball gets choicer material in the well-worn I Didn't Know What Time It Was and the new You're Nearer, also gets the affections of Richard Carlson, whose crew haircut makes him the first genuine-looking Princeton undergraduate in cinema history. Ann Miller, Hal LeRoy and a Cuban, Desi Arnaz, a terpsichorean Rudolph Valentino who was in the stage show, make you wish there were more time for dancing; Eddie Bracken that there were more for comedy...