Word: counts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world heaped honors on Maeterlinck. King Albert of the Belgians made him a count. Hollywood accorded him its highest accolade by starring Shirley Temple in his The Blue Bird. During World War II, Maeterlinck and his wife fled to the U.S. With them came two bluebirds. The Maeterlincks were permitted to land, but the bluebirds were barred because of the danger of psittacosis (parrot fever...
...play, an eighteenth century comedy of manners, tells of the financial downfall of a count's family as a result of the count's interest in antiques. The demise of the family is temporarily staved off by the daughter's marriage to a wealthy merchant...
...varsity golf team shivered on the greens of Woodland Country Club yesterday and fell before an easily superior Babson Institute squad by a 6 to 3 count...
Great Expectations. Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, a Thurmond supporter (who says that he finally voted for Harry Truman), was another kind of legislator. The President could count on him for a fair share of his program, excepting, of course, civil rights. When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley. With grim significance, Stennis added: "I hope and expect him to appoint this gentleman...
...safeguards on Radcliffe voting methods won Radcliffe Student Council approval at the last meeting. Changes in the Student Government by-laws now provide for sealed ballot boxes, voting lists, and assurances that no student may count any part of any ballot upon which her name is listed...