Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MANNERS & MORALS Lawyer Knows Best...
...Tokyo audiences, the Ainus only pretended to kill the bear and drink his blood. They shared the bill with a bebop band and a nicely undressed chorus. "Tokyo," murmured one bush-bearded, 74-year-old aborigine eying the chorus, "is the best part of Japan; Hokkaido is too far out in the sticks...
Among the U.S.'s most beautiful Negro women (listed by John Robert Powers in Ebony magazine): Contralto Marian Anderson ("an impressive personality and most presentable manners"), Mrs. Ralph Bunche ("dignity, attractive personality, character and a wonderful, soft, feminine beauty"), Hollywood's Scorch Singer Lena Home ("the best example I know of 'outer glow' and 'inner glow' delightfully joined...
...Ride the Pink Horse, Miss Tatlock's Millions), decided to try a separation. Said Wanda: "This isn't final. I hope it won't be. I don't want a divorce." Said Audie: "It's all my fault. She's done the best she could...
Last month, when Harry Truman appointed Martha Lucas as a U.S. delegate to the Paris UNESCO conference, Sweet Briar suspected she might not stay much longer at the college she had helped to make one of the best in the U.S. Sure enough, last week, President Lucas sent word from Paris that she would resign next June. Chatting with newsmen before taking the boat train enroute to the U.S., she said she next wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today...