Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BOOK OF COSTUME (two volumes, 958 pp.) - Mi Ilia Davenport - Crown...
...filling the gap between the Sumerian palace and the Civil War White House Millia Davenport devoted seven years. The result of her labor of love will impress the couturier and fascinate the housewife. The Book of Costume is also more instructive than many a history book, because it does not stop at tracking flares and gussets down through the ages. It is a history of the ornaments used by-men & women to add the finishing touches to their apparel-enameled watches, canes, necklaces, lap dogs...
Republicans v. the People. But even more decisively than they rejected Dewey, the voters had rejected the 80th Congress. Writing in the New York Herald Tribune, Russell Davenport, onetime FORTUNE editor and Willkie's 1940 campaign coordinator, declared recently: "The [Republican] party has failed to inspire the American people with confidence . . . Its failure is a failure of leadership at all levels ... But, with the sole exception of the Willkie struggle, the theme for the last 16 years has been the 'Republican Party v. the People.' And the people have won." Vermont's Senator George Aiken demanded...
...winners got the first break of the game when they downed one of their own punts after a Winthrop back had accidentally touched it. From the Winthrop 15, Davenport moved to the one on two plays, and from there Dick Moses bulled his way over. Bud Krch dropped back from his guard post to kick the extra point...
Interceptions foiled Winthrop's aerial attack in the second and third periods. In the fourth quarter, a Davenport interception paved the way to its second touchdown. Taking over on their own 30, Davenport scored on a fancy reverse followed by a pass from Bob Massey to Tony Hovey, who outraced two defenders to the goal line...