Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Audubon, N J., Mrs. Myrtle S. Lewis defied a notice from her landlord to vacate a six-room house. Landlord David C. Lang then removed the roof. But the First Presbyterian Church Men's Club started building Mrs. Lewis a new roof. Despite a risk of prosecution for trespassing, the Men's Club remained firm in its "belief that all people should have roofs over their heads...
...leaders-U.S. Steel Corp.'s Ben Fairless, Lever Bros.' Charles Luckman, General Electric Co.'s Charles E. Wilson, Henry Kaiser, Eastern Air Lines, Inc.'s Eddie Rickenbacker, Procter & Gamble Co.'s Richard R. Deupree, Sam Goldwyn and Radio Corp. of America's David Sarnoff -fitted the rags-to-riches pattern set by some of 1917's tycoons. And some of the leaders still had the old empire-building names-Harvey S. Firestone Jr., Henry Ford II and Nelson Rockefeller...
...ends with little Margaret, wistful as a hand-painted freckle, watching Cyd & company execute what seems to be a ballet interpretation of the Birth of the Universe, set to the elemental strains of David Rose's Holiday for Strings. la Technicolor...
...existence of its own, dominating and dwarfing the individual characters; it becomes a sort of metaphysical entity, unexplored and uncriticized, that remains firm and true, regardless of the peccadilloes of its members. The reader is therefore seldom aroused about the fate of any individual Moorhouse. For even if erratic David were to choose the wrong bride (though he does not) or if moody Phoebe were to persist in her cold antagonism towards her errant husband (she comes around), the Moorhouse family would muddle through...
...revolutions swing to the right after their initial leftist burst, according to many scholars. It would seem that the Lefthanded League's rebellious uprising had thus perambulated, for Thursday night's elections dumped founder David C. Poskanzer out of the saddle and installed a new group of leaders...