Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peipingers looked on all this activity as a rude intrusion on the quiet culture of their ancient capital. "General Fu is not defending Peiping," they told each other, "Peiping is defending General Fu." There was much to support this view. It was a common rumor that the Reds had picked the lovely cultural center for their national capital. A Communist spokesman in Hong Kong said flatly: "No Chinese army will take the responsibility of destroying Peiping...
Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoy, 36, and husband Igor, 36, postponed their Christmas trip back to Manhattan from Paris on doctor's orders: the dime-store heiress and her auto-racing fourth husband had come down with nasty common colds...
...That was a mean job, watching flocks by night. Common sense calls it low-down work and the men who do it are regarded as trash. But. . . an angel came and made them apostles, prophets and children...
...When the Wise Men received the divine revelation that the king of the Jews was born, they made straight for Jerusalem, for, of course, they expected to find him at the capital in a lordly castle and a golden chamber. Where else would common sense expect to find a king...
This week, the Boston Store got a new owner: Federated Department Stores, Inc., headed by wide-awake Fred Lazarus Jr. (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937, et seq.). In the deal, Lazarus exchanged 292,600 shares of Federated common stock (market value: about $8,000,000) for the Boston Store stock. But the Boston Store will be run, as before, by President Richard Herzfeld...