Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheers for Honneybun. Last week they got both. As wedding bells rang out for royalty once again, sentimental London celebrated as it can only when romance is coupled with propriety. Two months ago King George VI, in answer (it was said) to the pleas of his sister, the Princess Royal, had granted permission for her music critic son, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, to marry pretty Marion Stein, whose father fled from Vienna in 1938 because he was part Jewish. On their wedding day last week, well-wishers by the thousands thronged the streets outside St. James...
...question was how West Germany should meet British devaluation; what mattered was the damage done in the search for an answer. Here is a play-byplay account of what happened...
...lira. Said Pesenti: "Unless the government revises its economic and financial policies radically and immediately, our dear country will plunge into the most frightful economic chaos . . ." Then Minister Pella played his trump cards. He announced 1) an immediate 10% reduction in the controlled price of bread, in answer to Communist alarm cries that as a result of the lira's slump prices would rise; and 2) the purchase in Washington of a little more than $100 million worth of gold (100 tons) to back the lira...
...parents seem to accept it from Chi-Chi. (But one irked teen-age boy wrote: "There's nothing wrong with you that a good hot date wouldn't fix.") She gets from 500 to 1,000 fan letters a month, has to get help from Marguerite to answer them...
What is Wellesley doing about all its future housewives and the dire prospect, if the critics of women's education are to be believed, of future frustration? To the critics, President Clapp's answer might seem to be "nothing." She sees no reason why education should be particularly different for men & women: "They have the same functions as citizens, the same functions as members of a community, the same functions as voters and volunteers." When Harvard was reforming its curriculum, Wellesley did the same, tightened course requirements to give freshmen and sophomores a broader general education. After...