Word: cupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mistress of the junk pile is a tough-but-tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...
...Cupid's Coupons. Oscar F. Soule, chairman of the Syracuse, N.Y. county rationing board, persuaded a young soldier and his bride-to-be that the board's authorization for their marriage was not required...
...politics, strode to the witness stand with long, measured steps: one-two-three-four. He bowed twice, sat down, sighed. Two tiny spring flowers, one white, one lavender, peeped from the lapel of his flowing black coat. His broad jowls were momentarily at rest, his eyebrows arched like innocent cupid's bows. Under subpoena by the Truman Committee, John Lewis had appeared gladly. There he sat, as guileless and patient as a volcano. He was ready to explain his threat of a coal strike...
...Allen, 47, looked like no Hollywood conception of a test pilot. He was modest to the point of shyness. Frail as a column of smoke, he never weighed more than 135. The few straggly strands of hair on top of his bald pate made him look like a tweedy cupid. His nose was fused into his face when he spun to earth more than 20 years ago in young Fred Harvey's white Curtiss Jenny, but many years later a plastic surgeon built him a creditable nose...
...will surprise many people to learn that this country has the worst record for bigamy of any European nation." The Daily Herald reported it was not drunkenness, but love, which caused men to talk and write of impending military operations; the Herald prayed for an artist who would draw "Cupid with a grinning skull and Venus in black mourning...