Word: craig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Rt. Rev. George Craig Stewart, 60, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Chicago; of a heart attack; on his way to a confirmation class in Chicago...
GANG RULE IN NEW YORK-Craig Thompson and Allen Raymond-Dial Press...
...CORPSE STEPS OUT-Craig Rice - Simon and Schuster ($2). Nelle Brown, glamorous radio singer, gets into three fast murders-and out again all right because her lawyer, lover and press agent are smart fellows. Hard-drinking, tight-living, hilarious stuff...
...nick of time, James Craig lets the animals out all over again. Miss Lane gets the skull when the volcano erupts, explodes and buries Mr. Ciannelli. Says Tom Fadden, patting the skull as Miss Lane and he drop leisurely downstream a few minutes later: "Old fellow, when we get back from this, you and I are going on a two-week bender...
...second annual meeting, the Mother-in-Law Association of Saks Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan department store, gave four judges-Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president...