Word: christinaity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christina (second name withheld because her parents are still in Poland) was a clerk in a state food monopoly. Her story: "If you are late for work three times in a month, they take away half your pay. A girl's average salary is 350 zloty ($90) a month. But a plain dress costs 600 zloty, so pay cuts are tough . . . If you refuse to work overtime, they call you a saboteur and a political enemy. Sometimes they fire you. If you get fired this way twice, you are sent to a labor camp. This is what Polish girls...
...helped keep the whole empire from foundering in its Depression crisis, stepped into the presidency of the Hearst Corp. in 1941 and bossed the empire's reorganization. Long a bachelor, he married Bronxville (N.Y.) Debutante Muriel ("Honey") Johnson in 1939, now has four children; Bridgid, 12; Richie, 11; Christina, 4; and Richard Emmett Jr., 4 mos. He is active in Roman Catholic lay circles (a Knight of Malta), an admirer and friend of Manhattan's Francis Cardinal Spellman. In the empire, subordinates both respect and fear him. He bombards underlings with memos signed with his unmistakable trademark...
Foyle now spends less time at his bookshop, leaves the day-to-day operations to son Richard, 42, and to daughter Christina, 40, who has inherited her father's flair for bookish ballyhoo. She presides over Foyle's monthly literary lunches, where new books are launched and authors are publicized. When Health Faddist Gayelord Hauser (Look Younger, Live Longer) appeared, she surrounded him with leaders of church, stage and business, and every one of them was over 80. Once when George Bernard Shaw was slated to speak, he was asked if he wanted a vegetarian menu. Said Shaw...
Prominent among the newcomers for which the anonymous compilers made way are Christina Rossetti's sentimental Christmas poem In the Bleak Midwinter...