Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...games. In front of Durnan is Les Canadiens' "bachelor defense"-rocklike Emile ("Butch") Bouchard, 26, an offseason beekeeper, and fiery Irishman Kenny Reardon, 25. Bachelor Bouchard plans to marry at season's end. Bachelor Reardon is the confessed favorite player of figure-skating champion Barbara Ann Scott...
...still another story, "The Secret," by Miss Ann Allison, everything is there but that final coherence which makes a story come together. It is written well, and with a feeling for character and mood, but it seems to have Implications. Nothing is wrong with Implications, except when it isn't clear what they imply. This adolescent profundity produces the most irritating literature known to man, and "Radditudes" should put up a special mechanism to keep it out. It is a constant threat in the March issue. Especially in the poetry...
...Rothermeres' diehard Tory friends had for years spoken of Owen as "that notorious leftist." They could only hope that Esmond and Ann Rothermere knew what they were doing. At least, the Rothermeres knew what they wanted: more zip and more readers for the Daily Mail (now 1,900,000), which has lagged far behind Beaverbrook's giant Express (3,700,000) and the tabloid, Labor-loving Mirror (3,400,000) since the Government took the lid off circulations. Hard-handsome, hard-talking, hard-drinking Frank Owen, once an eager Beaver-boy himself, seemed...
Through the Mirror. Mailmen gossiped that Owen's promotion was plotted by Ann Rothermere, who, keeps a bright and calculating eye on her easygoing husband's affairs. The Rothermeres had paved the way for the change by a complicated bit of high finance. They spent some $3,000,000 to clinch their shaky hold on the Mail by buying out the shares held by London's tabloid Mirror, and trading off their own shares in the Mirror...
...Denver, Mrs. Lavada Ann Sneed, a 42-year-old grandmother, who had packed 3,600 parachutes for the Army during the war, hired a pilot to take her to 4,000 feet and bailed out, to see what it was like. It was all right...