Word: besse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary Margaret seemed a little flustered. But she turned, smiled again and kissed his cheek before she walked offstage. Her father's grin broadened at the solid applause which followed her and he looked up happily at the presidential box where aunts, uncles and cousins were sitting with Bess Truman...
...Bess Myerson, all wrapped up in a long white gown and a musicianly mood, played the piano at a "Pop" Concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, managed to overcome what she calls her "natural barrier": being Mjiss America, 1945. She -gave them Full Moon and Empty Arms. The audience liked it fine, clapped without prejudice...
...Bess Truman once more gladdened the hearts of the temperance people by turning down a glass of wine, proffered by amateur waitress Congresswoman Jessie Sumner. (No prohibitionist, Mrs. T. just doesn't like the taste of the stuff.) Occasion: the monthly luncheon of her Spanish teacher's class. Mrs. Truman, who turned up in a hat to remember (see cut), was on a spot: no water was served with the meal, which was so spicily Iberian that Senator Homer Ferguson's wife Myrtle was moved to report: "Now I know where the flamethrowers come from...
...practice spread to England when German miners were imported to Cornwall during the reign of good Queen Bess. Some religious authorities condemned it as fraud or dealing with the devil. Others gave it clerical approval. From England, it emigrated to the U.S., where it is still going strong, with most of the emphasis on water-finding. Modern, up-to-date dowsers often abandon the hallowed forked stick for an elaborate gadget pretending to use some scientific phenomenon, such as radioactivity or radar. That is dowsing just the same...
...Bess Truman had some more ladies in to the White House-this time right into the kitchen. Out went the servants, and into aprons went the First Lady and friends. Occasion: luncheon for 70 students of the First Lady's Spanish teacher, who major-dominated the cooking. Climactic dish: picadillo...