Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last night Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller were here for the night, and a few friends were here for dinner. We had a very pleasant evening and talked about hemisphere affairs to our hearts' content. -Eleanor Roosevelt...
While this agreeable potlatch was going on, below the Rio Grande many Latin Americans were talking to their hearts' content about the Russo-German War. Last week these over-all reactions were reported in a survey of Latin American public opinion...
Died. Harry Content, 80, "dean of Wall Street brokers"; in Manhattan. He bought his seat on the Exchange in 1885, weathered five panics, sold the first U.S. Steel common-120,000 shares the first day-created a sensation in 1926 when he noiselessly bought control of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co. for Speyer & Co. and a western road...
Famed for its losses (about $25,000 a week), the Marshall Field-Ralph Ingersoll tabloid PM last week had apparently produced a money-making byproduct. It was a national Sunday supplement called Parade, with content lifted discreetly from PM itself. Fifth issue of Parade was last week distributed to 700,000 readers through newsstands (5? a copy), such un-PM-like newspapers as the Nashville Tennessean, John Shively Knight's Detroit Free Press and Akron Beacon-Journal, Eugene Meyer's Washington Post...
...listen, men, if it happens again That a hidebound old officer's near, Don't whistle and yell when you see something swell -Be content with a general leer! LEWIS F. OWEN Oradell...