Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hereby give my entire estate," ran the will of Edgar H. Donne, 70, who lived & died in a one-room shack on a barren Michigan farm, "to Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, screen actress, whose stage name is Greta Garbo, to her and no other." Neighbors recalled that Donne had once bought himself some new clothes and set out for Hollywood; after he got back he never talked about it. He once wrote Garbo a letter; it came back stamped "Refused." The local probate judge estimated that lonely Hermit Donne was worth about $20,000. Postscript to the will: "If Greta Garbo...
Died. Kenneth Craven Hogate, 49, hefty Hoosier publisher of the Wall Street Journal, president of Barren's Publishing Co., chairman of Dow, Jones & Co., Inc. (financial ticker service), close friend and 1944 presidential campaign adviser of Thomas E. Dewey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...decades since this man, who might have been great, held a stop watch on the Eternal and hurled a childish challenge at God to strike him dead. Could 20 barren years be the answer to that prayer...
...city that prides itself justifiably on its educational facilities, industry, and world trade to be so journalistically warped and barren seems paradoxical. What accurate and adequate coverage manages to penetrate the formidable perimeter must come from the New York papers and the Christian Science Monitor, a sectarian newspaper with a minute 15,900 copies distributed locally...
...setbacks of the war barely begun the decision to hold the election at this time was indeed unfortunate. Certainly the American State Department should ultimately settle for nothing less than completely democratic processes in Poland, but democracy is a delicate plant and cannot be expected to thrive in the barren soil that is Poland today. If democracy is to be brought into Poland it must be cultivated step by step. The most obvious move in that direction is material aid in the Polish reconstruction and in the stabilization of the Polish atmosphere to one more healthy for democracy. To saddle...