Word: cooperativeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LEOMA R. COOPER Norfolk...
Died. Mort Cooper, 45, right-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals (1938-45) who won more than 20 games in the seasons of 1942 (National League Most Valuable Player), 1943 and 1944 pitching to his brother, Catcher Walker Cooper, as the Cardinals won three pennants and two World Series; of cirrhosis of the liver, complicated by a staphylococcal infection; in Little Rock...
Edith Chanpin (Geraldine Fitzgerald) has a ambition that her husband, Joe Chanpin (Gary Cooper) would be American president in future and as the first step for its performance she thinks to let him stand as the sub-candidacy...
...please." Perfection was only a horse, but in Belvoir Castle, it might have seemed to young Diana Manners that the Seventh Duke of Rutland had only to ring his little gold bell to summon up perfection itself. Now 66 and the widow of gallant, talented Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, D.S.O., onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Diana has written a story that might have been just another garrulous memoir in which an old lady shows her medals except for the familiarity with which she evokes the world of the pre-1914 British aristocracy. It was the era that...
This is really a two-part book, a fairy tale with corpses. Lady Diana Duff Cooper is able to evoke a world as fragile and opulent as an Edwardian conservatory filled with orchids, and still face the time when the glass broke in 1914 and the killing four-year frost came in. Her personal story is romantic enough to make Ouida-lady laureate of the plush paradise-blush for modesty. It is offset by the tough self-knowledge of an aristocracy that called a pretty fast tune but was prepared to pay a stiff price for the piper. One-fourth...