Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-two hours before the inauguration of President Roosevelt for the Third Term, Wendell Willkie arrived in Washington. The lobby of The Carlton was jammed with obliging celebrities and avid autograph hunters, but the defeated candidate had no time for either. In the seventh-floor suite of Secretary of State Cordell Hull he settled down for a two-hour conference with the old border statesman. Wendell Willkie was going to London to see the war for himself. President Roosevelt had asked Cordell Hull to make available to him information and assistance of the Department of State...
...some people's ideas of what art is," thought it might even result in a Virginia branch of the Society for Sanity in Art. Said he: "I hope there will be a few healthy fights down here." Meanwhile Walter P. Chrysler Jr. beamed, sipped punch, talked with strained, avid interest to Richmond's white-haired matrons. Said he: "Art is always the vanguard of civilization...
Died. Bertha Muzzy Bower, 68, author of 68 two-fisted Western novels (most famous: Chip of the Flying U), who as B. M. Bower concealed her sex from many an avid reader; in Los Angeles...
...Carbon copies of the U. S. Navy's new long-range bombers (with mail compartments substituted for bomb racks), the 175-m.p.h. (cruising speed) S-44s will carry 16 passengers, a crew of eleven, and 2,300 pounds of mail & express for 3.600 miles without a stop. Two avid watchers of their future performance will be the Navy and Pan Am, which itself will run non-stop New York-Lisbon service when it gets delivery on six new modified Boeing clippers...
...loud protestation that it would rival Gone With the Wind. It picturized Rachel Field's best-selling ventilation of certain Parisian scandals concerning her great-aunt by marriage. This unhappy tale, long locked away among the respectable annals of the New England Field family, was soon devoured by avid U. S. novel readers to the number...