Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DAVID THE KING-Gladys Schmitt-Dial...
...case, Hermann Göring's counsel, Otto Stahmer, rose, loaded down with notes from his client. He asked that the defense be permitted to attempt proof that Germany's violation of the Versailles Treaty constituted "retaliation" against Allied treaty transgressions. Britain's Sir David Maxwell Fyfe retorted: "For the defense to say that other people did the same thing is entirely irrelevant. ... It is no answer, even if true, that someone else committed breaches...
Dedicated to Hard Hearts. Although as a popular printmaker he had earned enough money for the comfortable, quiet family life he wanted, only a few friends (Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson) had recognized his genius. "The picture dealers, picture cleaners, picture-frame makers and other connoisseurs"- as he contemptuously called his critics- thought Hogarth's work could never compare with what he dubbed "the old black masters." Said Hogarth: "They think I hate Titian, and let them...
Those nominated thus far are as follows: Luis Amescua, David Barnhouse, Norman Brooks, Sal Costa, Bernard Edison, Hartley Fleishman, John Greene, Alan Heimert, John B. Jones, Lawrence Klepper, Townsend J. Knight, Benjamin H. Lacy...
...while Duquesne Light Co. workers stayed off the job. Even though the company managed to produce power at 50% of normal volume, street cars stopped, street lights went out, office buildings closed for fear elevators might go out of control, and residential districts were blacked out in rotation. Mayor David Lawrence took to the radio, announced: "This is a disaster." It might have been much worse-if power had failed completely, the city's milk and water supply would have been cut off, and refrigerators and oil burners would have stopped...