Word: annalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very helpful production, You Never Can Tell is seldom tiresome for long, and is often quite diverting. It shimmers, too, with good nature. Like his contemporary Wilde, and like virtually no one since, Shaw can be sharp without being snide, mischievous without being nasty. Quite soundly Stage Annalist Allardyce Nicoll once dubbed Shaw's type of comedy "purposeful...
That was the beginning of the famed Comstock Lode, but it was 15 years before it really paid off-when it became the royal domain of four shrewd Irishmen. In just one year (1874) each became a multimillionaire. Oscar Lewis, annalist of San Francisco and author of a good book (The Big Four) on the builders of the Central Pacific, has written a thoughtful history of the men who exploited Corn-stock's richest ore. He makes it clear that the West as a whole gained nothing from this strike but a prolonged fever and a legend...
...York Times, which since 1936 has been disposing of its subsidiaries-Mid-Week Pictorial (now defunct), Current History, the Annalist, its rotogravure plant-last week disposed of Wide World Photos, Inc. The buyer: A.P., whose picture service now has only two major competitors, Acme and International. ^ Current History has been through a series of mergers in which it became the graveyard of such once famous magazines as Century and the Forum, last week was merged again with the monthly Events...